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SAT Writing & Language: Recognizing Comma Rules for Restrictive Clauses 7 Views
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Whom or Who? Watch this SAT Writing video to finally know which one is which.
Transcript
- 00:02
okay shmoopers, next item down line seven
- 00:05
of 11 like the convenience store all
- 00:08
right here let's go and give the
- 00:09
preamble here and cruising down
- 00:11
paragraph one two three and that's where
Full Transcript
- 00:25
The institute doesn't just need partners it needs
- 00:28
experienced partners the description is
- 00:30
essential to the meaning of the sentence
- 00:32
when the information that comes after
- 00:34
award like who is necessary for the
- 00:36
overall meaning of the sentence a
- 00:38
restrictive Clause well who doesn't need [sentence underlined]
- 00:41
a comma before it so sorry
- 00:43
when essential information comes
- 00:44
afterward like who it's not set off by a
- 00:46
comma so get rid of a right we just said
- 00:48
that if the information weren't
- 00:49
essential the sentence would need two
- 00:50
commas so here is e in this case though
- 00:53
the information is essential even if
- 00:55
there weren't a comma before whom well [comma crossed out]
- 00:58
see right there it would be incorrect
- 00:59
since whom is an object pronoun and who
- 01:03
is a subject pronoun a good trick for
- 01:05
testing which is right is putting him in
- 01:08
place of the pronoun if him works its
- 01:10
whom and if he works its who in who he
- 01:14
who yeah that's the secret passcode [man enters door]
- 01:16
opening our front door but you didn't
- 01:18
know that
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