[Video] Q13: No change or draped, with festive red banners, or draped with festive red banners— or draped with festive red banners

Explanation for Question 13 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So question 13, we're trying to decide how to place our punctuation in this 2 sentence. If you look at how it is, we can see that we have 3 festive comma, red, comma, banners, 4 comma, and garlands. And so the form that we're using here with a as 5 festive comma, red comma Banner's comment 6 and something else. So we're loo you were using a list form an a, 7 but what we have here is not really list, right? 8 The festive red banners and garlands all go together, 9 right? The festive red doesn't just describe the banners. 10 It's also describing the garlands. So we don't have a list. 11 So a is using the incorrect punctuation. 12 Now, if we look at B, it says draped comma with festive red banners, 13 comma and garlands. 14 Yeah. So we have another comma here and again, 15 the banners and the garlic need to go together because both of these are 16 being described by the festive red, 17 the festive red banners, and also the garlands are festive in red. 18 So we don't want something that has this comma right here. 19 So B is wrong for that reason. Now, 20 if we look at, see, we've now put a dash here. 21 So we've only separated the banners in the garlands more, 22 which is again, what we don't want to do, because the banners in the 23 garlands are being described by the same two words. 24 So this dash, um, separates the two things that we need to be together. 25 Additionally, on a more like technical grammatical note, 26 when you use a dash, you typically want to separate two inde...