[Video] Q8: No change or which came or to come or came

Explanation for Question 8 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Number eight. This one says more than 60% of the contribution coming 2 from commercial goods and services created by companies using space-related technology. 3 Okay. So from reading that, 4 or from hearing that you might sense that there's something off about this group 5 of words right here, it doesn't quite sound like a sentence, 6 right? And that's because sentences need a subject 7 and a verb. We can't just have one or the other. 8 That's not a sentence. So before trying to find a subject 9 in the sentence, let's try and find a verb. 10 So it says more than 60% of the contribution coming so 11 well, come is a verb and we can use coming with a helping verb. 12 There's no helping verb here, right? 13 You can't just say, oh, I coming, you would have to say, 14 oh, I am coming or I will be coming. 15 You can't just use an ING verb on its own. 16 So that does not quite work as our sentence verb. 17 Let's keep looking, coming from commercial goods and services created 18 by so created can work as its own verb I 19 created, right? That is, that is the sentence. 20 But when we add that by that preposition, 21 it kind of just melts these two words together created by, 22 and all that does is modify the goods and services. 23 It's not saying that goods and services created something. 24 It's saying these are goods and services created by companies 25 using space-related technology created is not being used as 26 an action verb. There's no one doing any action here. 27 So that's wh...