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Which witch is which? Or is it that? Unravel this mess by watching our SAT Writing video.
Where does the comma go? Before "which", you always need one. Except in this example. Non-restrictive clauses are almost always set off with commas...
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....
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John Trumbull's painting. Declaration of Independenc. Continental Congress. So much patriotism in this SAT Writing video.
Transcript
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Okay s eighty shmoop er's Here we go Three of
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eleven underlying writing right here painting that netted approximately one
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hundred thirty one inches that the artists all right that
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sounds kind of awkward So let's see it's even find
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it here First of all this is really good for
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the team is an enlarged version of a smaller painting
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that measured approximately one morning just as the artist or
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the one about the doctor to get a country well
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the dimensions of the painting or a nice detail kind
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of like if we really care but they don't alter
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the meaning of the sentence They're part of a non
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restrictive phrase something that can be taken out without changing
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the meaning of the sentence Non restrictor phrases often begin
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with which and our set off with commas Those comets
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also give the sense the natural pauses it needs making
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for a smoother reed and a chance to take a
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much needed breath and otherwise exhaustingly long sentence All right
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well as written the lack of commas a suggest that
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this is a restrictive phrase but it's not without the
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information following that we'd be left with You'd isn't enlarged
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Version of a smaller painting that the artist had created
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as part of a siri's Yeah that sounds clear to
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you than the omitted information is non restrictive That comma
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before that is a step in the right direction because
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commons air used to set off non restrictive clauses however
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without a second comma closing it off with a non
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restrictive closet And it looks like it include the rest
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of the sentence which it does not It's a non
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union sentence So it's not included Just using me which
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alone without commas isn't enough to establish a non restrictive
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klaus since we still need the commas to set it
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off from the rest of the senate So that's it
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The answer is c one right here painting comma which
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measured approximately twenty one inches by thirty one inches comma
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that the artist yet yetta Okay that's it We're done
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