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Explanation for Question 4 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
So when we look at the question for number four, 2 it says in large quantities, which one would expect to see you when it 3 is collected for the entire municipality, 4 composts can be converted into natural gas that can be used as fuel. 5 And so the important thing here is what do we do around the which, 6 right? So we're not going to change the word, but rather we're focused on 7 the punctuation of the word. So I'm going to highlight where we see some 8 other punctuation happening. We see here that we've used a 9 parentheses, right? And we know that we want to put some type of punctuation 10 here because we've closed the parentheses on this end. 11 And so the question is, what type of punctuation do we put? 12 And if you've used the parentheses, you can't switch to a comma, 13 right? So you can either use two parentheses or you could use two commas, 14 but you can't go back and forth. So a is wrong because we've switched 15 punctuation types. 16 Now, if we look at B, be used as a parentheses and C uses 17 a print, or do you use as a parentheses? So either B or D 18 could be right and C uses no punctuation. 19 And the reason that we need punctuation is because this piece of punctuation right 20 here is a hint that what you've done is you've created a non-essential phrase, 21 right? You've created another phrase that you want to set off and punctuation that 22 could be taken out of the passage, which is going to be this one, 23 the, which would, which one would expect to see w...