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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

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right here let's go and give the

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preamble here and cruising down

00:11

paragraph one two three and that's where

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

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the information is essential even if

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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

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testing which is right is putting him in

01:08

place of the pronoun if him works its

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whom and if he works its who in who he

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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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