SAT Writing and Language Drill 5.1 Conventions of Punctuation
Recommendation
Want a study guide too?
Another fine SAT Writing video on the Job Outlook for Urban Planners. Get your thinking cap on for some paragraph analysis.
Conventions of Punctuation | Within-sentence punctuation |
Product Type | SAT Writing |
SAT | SAT Writing and Language |
SAT Writing | Standard English Conventions |
SAT Writing and Language | Standard English Conventions |
Standard English Conventions | Conventions of Punctuation |
Test Prep | SAT Writing |
Transcript
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