SAT Writing and Language Drill 5.1 Conventions of Punctuation

got a whole lot of underlying anything's here We're gonna

go through try to figure out what this is about

picking out a few key words and goes read the

first sentence of each paragraph just we kind of get

our geek dipped All right here we go Innovative fresh

nell's with background that iconic quality signing an environmental design

should consider a career in the growing fields of urban

in regional planning rights is kind of a recruiting doc

for urban planners All right herman in him who worked

about short long from flames establish maintain communities is in

a plant or may exam on a new school and

totally you know socially urban planning's relatively new field Alright

yada yada because cities are always changing Planning's relatively steady

career path i'm sent change beauticians is demand and planer

mill and times grow ten percent Yeah about his fast

Average for all occupations are not very exciting And increase

folks unstable environmentally conscious val minerals increased demand for them

You storm water management when cities have funds for development

projects planners in high demand and plans on face competition

for jobs Okay well here we go first one short

and long term plans Let's See where that's coming from

and go back to the writing and find it well

in the first paragraph here we go Innovative professional back

from that kind of political science around hank urban and

regional planners worked to develop short and long term plans

to establish and maintain communities well there are two kinds

of plans in this sentence Short term plans and long

term plans when two words act together is a single

adjectives such as short term plans or long term plans

while they get a hyphen between them In this situation

plans has only said wants to avoid repetition which is

klein Short is still part of a two word noun

phrase Therefore it deserves its own special hyphen making short

dash and long dash term plans The right choice Well

two words Adjectives need hyphen Cia like in a but

if that's not reason enough consider this idea Without the

two hyphens the plans could be term plans whatever that

means Yeah then there would be two types of term

plans short ones and long ones and that would make

this sentence pretty wacky Dropping the hyphen after short or

adding three hyphens would make the plans both short term

and long term eliot once which seems kind of well

impossible That's it The correct answer is c They're short

dash and long dash term plans and well that's it 00:02:30.543 --> [endTime] All right we're done