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This SAT Writing video on The Well-Rounded Curriculum goes over "the process". No, really. The sentence they want you to analyze starts like that. Have fun!
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay Nine of eleven Number nine Number nine Great beatles
- 00:07
album The process Despite all right let's find where this
- 00:13
is in the writing and figure out where the heck
- 00:15
were goingto deal with it All right so we're skimming
- 00:17
down here it's in this little anemic paragraph before the
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- 00:20
end i must confess that my father at least in
- 00:23
my case failed to pass on his musical talents But
- 00:26
i learned some good lessons in the process despite my
- 00:30
forgettable performance Okay so he's not good on the banjo
- 00:33
clearly So that just seems weird with semi colon in
- 00:37
there because that should be like two different thoughts right
- 00:39
Isn't that kind of what semi cones do Well the
- 00:42
author admits he was no good at music That's what
- 00:44
he means by my father failed to pass on his
- 00:46
talents He makes that claim another way in the parenthetical
- 00:49
claws at the end of the second sentence when a
- 00:52
parenthetical claus comes at the end of a sentence it's
- 00:54
set off with either a comma or an m dash
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That thing m dash is kind of more dramatic and
- 01:00
he's kind of dramatic Kerry's emotional and a little bit
- 01:02
Sad Get a musical town of dad so it's semicolon
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a here is used in place of and tow link
- 01:08
to complete sentences right that's what its job is that's
- 01:11
What the union covenant says it has to dio since
- 01:14
the final clause of the sentence isn't it Ah full
- 01:17
sentence A semicolon doesn't work though we all love creating
- 01:19
tension A text message with an ellipsis the punctuation mark
- 01:23
is technically meant to show that words have been left
- 01:25
out Not that there's a pause in the sentence A
- 01:28
colon on the other hand is used to introduce an
- 01:31
idea related to the one that was just stated But
- 01:34
here despite my forgettable performance is a contrast to what
- 01:38
was just said So it ain't those and the answer
- 01:40
is b the process dash despite all right that's it
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