The Last SAT Punctuation Guide You’ll Need
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- Identify Independent Clauses Fast: Find the subject and its main verb. Ignore verbs inside "-ing" phrases, "to" infinitives, and extra information/noun clauses.
- Colon: Correct only if a complete independent clause comes before it.
In the "Identifying independent clause" section,
it was written that there must be no dependent clause starter . But , in the three examples , example number one and three were looking like they are incomplete without any other word or sentence before them and they were sounding like they are dependent on any other sentence...
Please clear my doubt ...
- Period, Semicolon, Comma + FANBOYS: Correct only if a complete independent clause comes both before and after. Semicolons can also separate items in a semicolon list.
- Isolated Comma (comma without a fanboys after it): Correct only when attaching non-essential information to the sentence. You can remove this information and the sentence still makes sense.
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- Dash: Correct when used in a pair to set off non-essential information, or alone to function like a colon.
- Check answer choices in this order of likelihood: Colon first, then Period/Semicolon/comma+,FANBOYS, then isolated comma, then no punctuation.
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- Know these shortcuts: Never add punctuation between a title and a name (e.g., "architect Jane Doe"), Dashes, Question mark questions
- The Exact Process: 1) Look at answer choices FIRST. 2) Know what you're looking for before reading the passage. 3) Use "comma jumping" to skip non-essential info. 4) Always verify the sentence's punctuation structure before answering.
For the CPIN priority list, where should dashes be? Before the isolated comma?
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Around the 1:10:28 mark, you're saying that the "Transition words describe the relationship between 2 sentences next to each other and it’s always the sentence that the transition word is a part of and the sentence before that" rule helps you find which two sentences are being contrased, so after we find that out, we should use the sentence structure of those sentence to find which punctuation fits best, right? LIke after you find the 2 sentences that contrast each other, look if it's an Independent clause, etc., right?
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if the sentence is starting with praising and you said its an non essential info then why isint there comma before prasing because non essential info has commas at 1:28:27
Chapters
0:00 Intro
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0:23 Video agenda
1:07 Identifying independent clauses fast
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12:50 The 6 punctuation marks
42:45 How to solve different punctuation question types
when doing transition placement questions, how do you eliminate the answer choices that don't have semicolons in them? is it possible that the answer in a transition placement question could be the correct answer? 1:14:00
1:15:45 The process
1:24:04 Quick recap
1:06:58
if anyone didn't understand how to solve the transition questions.
here is you sentence: A. B __ C
if A (the first scentence) contradicts with B then u put
A. B however; C
(you put however before semicolon)
if B contradicts with C then u put
A. B ;however
(you put however after the semicolon)
I hope this made it easier
1:26:08 Example questions
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