[Video] Q27: No change or factors, such as altitude and weather, or factors such as, altitude and weather, or factors, such as altitude and weather

Explanation for Question 27 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

27. This one starts up here, 2 but the only words that were missing were a goat. So I just put 3 in here, it says a goat ingest the vegetation particular to the 4 meadow in which it grazes, which along with other environmental factors, 5 such as altitude and weather shapes, 6 the cheeses taste and texture. So looking through the answers, 7 we can see that we're dealing with punctuation, 8 specifically commas. This means we need to figure out where the pauses 9 and separations should go in this sentence. 10 So while you can use your intuition and just read the sentence aloud 11 and try out these different common placements by palsy at each one, 12 we want to find, we want to know the technical basis for how to 13 use commas cause intuition doesn't always work. 14 So what I'm noticing about the underlined portion is that it 15 includes this phrase such as altitude and weather. 16 I can tell that it's a phrase and not a clause because clauses 17 have to include a subject and a verb. 18 On the other hand, phrases are missing one of those components. 19 Either they're missing a subject or they're missing a verb. 20 And in this case, we're missing a verb. All we have is the subject. 21 I can also tell that this is a phrase because it's modifying this 22 word factors, right? 23 Because you can ask yourself what or which factors, 24 factors like altitude and weather. So all this phrase is doing is modifying factor 25 factors. The next thing we need to ask ourselves is, 26 is this phr...