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Explanation for Question 43 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

43 says pulley. And Socolow describe a more likely scenario. 2 Most people who heard the broadcast understood they were listening to a piece of 3 fiction, but some being influenced by the sensationalized news coverage afterward 4 later remembered being more afraid than they had been. 5 So this is a pretty long sentence, 6 but we're only focusing on this part specifically, 7 we're focusing on punctuation and clause types. 8 It really helps to be able to break down your clauses and phrases, 9 to understand the structure of the sentence, 10 which then helps to understand where the punctuation should go. 11 So, one thing that stands out to me is this comma, 12 but that's a common conjunction. 13 And remember comma conjunction is used to separate two 14 independent clauses, and we can see that on the left side, 15 on the common conjunction, all this stuff, 16 that's an independent clause. It can stand alone as its own sentence. 17 That also means that whatever is on this side of the comma conjunction 18 also needs to be an independent clause, 19 meaning it can stand alone as its own sentence. 20 So what this helps us do is just we can ignore the stuff behind 21 it. Cause we're only focused on this bracketed independent clause that 22 we have now that makes it a little bit easier. 23 We also want to be familiar with our phrases, 24 unlike a clause that always includes a subject and a verb, 25 a phrase is missing one of those. It might not have a subject or 26 it might not have a ve...