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SAT Writing

Category - Improving Sentences

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Choose the answer which best rewords the italicized portion. If you think the original wording is best, choose option A.

China asserts that they discovered the eight uninhabited islands and controlled them until the end of the Sino - Japanese War in 1895.
  1. uninhabited islands and controlled them
  2. uninhabited islands. And controlled them
  3. uninhabited islands, and controlled them
  4. uninhabited islands; and controlled them
Explanation
Answer: A - The best choice is “uninhabited islands and controlled them”

Commas are used before coordinating clauses such as “and” in sentences with two independent clauses. Periods and semicolons are inappropriate types of punctuation to use with this sentence. Since the clause after “and” cannot stand alone as a sentence, no punctuation is needed before the conjunction.
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