[Video] Q16: No change or of which both or both of them or both

Explanation for Question 16 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So number 16 tells us about the dancers, 2 right? It says the lion dance requires strength, 3 grace and coordination from the two dancers. 4 And so whatever we put here needs to be describing dancers who are people, 5 right. People. 6 And so when we say both of whom are almost completely hidden, 7 we are describing the two dancers who are people use of the word, 8 whom is what we want to do here. So a is actually going to 9 be correct. Now, if we look at B, 10 it says of which both, right? 11 And so this isn't going to work first off because which is not as 12 good as whom, because which can describe an object. 13 And we know that the dancers are people and of which both is not 14 the correct order. Right. We would have said both of which we don't put 15 the up, which first now see says both of them. 16 And so this is, this is okay, right? 17 Both of them are almost completely hidden by the elaborate bamboo. 18 However, when we use them this whole second half actually becomes 19 an independent clause. Both of them are almost completely 20 hidden. So both of them would be a subject and then almost completely hidden. 21 It's kind of our verb phrase, right? And so if we make this an 22 independent clause by saying both of them, 23 we can no longer just use a comma. 24 We would need a conjunction, right? And so C is wrong because it changes 25 our second half to an independent clause, which would require a conjunction that we 26 don't have. And now Deidre says both, 27 both are almost completely hidden by, 28 um, the elaborate bamboo. And so both has the same issue as C. 29 It actually creates the second half of the sentence to be an independent clause 30 or both as the subject. And then hidden is the, 31 is the verb. And if I have an independent clause that comment alone, 32 won't do the trick. So our best answer is going to be a.