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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.

Nations may claim rights to a particular body of fresh water or they may plan to build dams and other projects on rivers.
  1. fresh water or they may
  2. fresh water. Or, they may
  3. fresh water; or they may
  4. fresh water, or they may
Explanation
Answer: D - The best choice is “fresh water, or they may”

Commas are used before coordinating clauses such as “or” in sentences with two independent clauses. Periods and semicolons are inappropriate types of punctuation to use with this sentence. Since the clause after “or” can stand alone as a sentence, a comma is needed before the conjunction.
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