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SAT Writing & Language: Em-Dashes vs. Semicolons 22 Views
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Description:
Cars and dashes. Yes, we're talking dashes not dashboards in this SAT Writing video.
Transcript
- 00:03
okay next one down question 3 of 11 in
- 00:06
the writing exercise here and we're
- 00:08
focused on the phrase cars and lighter
- 00:10
more see right there where it's
- 00:12
underlined [man talking fast]
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- 00:22
how do we analyze this one well let's
- 00:23
see it's all about the - and that -
- 00:26
looks just jargony and kind of wrong
- 00:28
like it's a really rare that you would
- 00:30
have a - there so follow the pattern of
- 00:32
punctuation already established in this
- 00:35
sentence there should be a semicolon
- 00:37
after car seats everywhere else [arrows point to semicolon]
- 00:39
however the comma between lighter and
- 00:41
more is just what we need because it's
- 00:44
separating coordinate adjectives like
- 00:46
that's what you do if you're in the
- 00:48
comma Union you separate the coordinate
- 00:50
the adjectives there M dashes can be
- 00:53
tricky when used at the end of a
- 00:54
sentence they emphasize whatever comes
- 00:56
next in this case each item in the list
- 00:58
is of equal value it's kind of like a
- 01:01
car socialism so there's no reason that
- 01:03
lighter more efficient industrial
- 01:05
equipment should get special treatment
- 01:08
yeah get rid of that a and because [car going through tunnel fast]
- 01:10
there's a comma within one of the lists
- 01:12
items while all the punctuation goes up
- 01:14
a notch and what would normally be just
- 01:16
a comma gets upgraded to a semicolon so
- 01:18
I'll get rid of B not all commas change
- 01:20
to semicolons however see that's how it
- 01:23
works alright we're done [Answer D circled green]
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