[Video] Q3: No change or savings increase or increases savings or also it increases savings

Explanation for Question 3 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So we can see that sentence for the sentence. 2 For question three says better than soil holding moisture, 3 compost, minimize water waste and runoff comma. 4 It increases savings on water costs and helps reduce erosion on embankments near bodies 5 of water. So what we can do as we figure out what to say 6 here is we can think about splitting the sentence into two pieces, 7 right? Because we know that we have a comma right here. 8 And so, however, we, we write the sentence in darker blue and needs to 9 be consistent with the comma. Now, 10 as is our light blue sentence is an independent clause and our dark blue 11 sentence is also an independent clause, right? 12 Cause the light blue says the better, better than soil moisture compost. 13 Minimises there's our subject in our verb. 14 And then the second one, it says it increases savings. 15 So there's our subject in our verb as well. 16 And right now they're just separated by a comma. And this is a very 17 common air that you don't want to make on the sat. 18 You can never separate your two independent clauses with just the comma. 19 You need a comma and a conjunction, 20 so a is wrong because it's missing the conjunction. 21 Now, if we look at B, it just says comma, 22 we would have the comment. And then it would say savings increase on water 23 costs and help reduce erosion. 24 And so this doesn't really change much. 25 This still keeps the second part is an independent clause. 26 So it would be wrong because we'd still be m...