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The Comma
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SAT上的逗号都是关于子句、逗号拼接或并行性的。你通常会在那里看到他们。
Now, if you haven't gone over those things I recommend going to the clauses and the conjunction lessons first because it's gonna make a lot more sense how
commas are used once you've seen those videos. So I assume you've done that but if not,
我会尽可能多地解释。
There are lists such as thing a, thing b, and thing c. Those lists should be separated by a comma. That is, here's thing a. Here's thing b, and here's thing c. Comma should separate thing a from b, and thing b from c. So far, so good.
现在，独立从句是另一种完整句的表达方式。如果有两个完整的句子，你可以用逗号和连词， and that should be a coordinating conjunction also know as the FANBOYS. Again, go back to that lesson video if you're not sure 我到底在说什么。但不管怎样，只要逗号，你可以分开句子， independent clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
还有什么？虽然我喜欢跑车带来的力量感， I prefer cars that receive good gas mileage. Subordinate clause is not a complete sentence, it's also known as a dependent clause. It begins here with what is called a subordinating conjunction.
You don't have to know these terms, just know that, though I like the sense of power that comes with a sports car period, is wrong. That is not a complete sentence. You need a comma to separate it from the complete sentence. 我喜欢能行驶良好里程的汽车。可以。继续。
Which. Which starts off an adjective clause. The adjective clause describes that which comes right next to the which. It doesn't describe the subject of the sentence, he. 那会很奇怪的。他开的是特斯拉，那是一辆电动车。
Sometimes you can also just forget the which and say, he is driving a Tesla, an electric car capable of decent performance. You don't always need the which is, especially if you already have a long adjective clause. 你也会看到同位语中的逗号。所以如果我们想描述一个特定的人，詹姆斯，还有 we want to talk about something about James that's not really super important.
Just kind of like a random fact, we want to set that off by commas. James, who is coming over for dinner tonight, just got back from South America. 我们在描述名人时通常会看到这一点。像，圣雄甘地，他带领印度解放反抗英国， 能够争取justi吗ce, that kind of thing. Here though I'm just giving you generic people like Nancy.
她是足球队队长的事实并不是那么重要，只是把它丢在那里。 她在马德里留学有什么重要的，也许她会在那里踢足球谁知道？ Okay those are call appositives, again you don't have to know this terminology just how commas are used and how they're not used.
它们也被用于所谓的基本子句，这与我们刚才看到的哪一个子句和同位语不同。 怎样？好吧，我告诉你，首先让我们看看这个句子。 I'm going to choose a college that is on the East Coast. This is correct.
注意我没说选一所位于东海岸的大学。这意味着美国只有一所大学 that one college is on the East Coast. I want to talk about a specific college, I'm going to narrow down all the possible colleges or at least some of them and say a college that is on the East Coast. A specific college out of all the colleges, one that is on the East Coast.
You would not use a comma there, that is incorrect. Sometimes the SAT will test for that, so be careful. 另外，我们有一个正确的句子。他是那种人。 我为什么把这个放在这里？我们谈过约翰或者上一张幻灯片里的人。
We said comma and then we described that person. Here though, we're talking about a specific type of person. 他是那种人。哪种人？ And so you want to make sure not to put comma who, but just who. No comma there.
And by the way you don't want to put that either. That's another trick they use. People, that is human beings should always be described by who, but here we are dealing of course with commas. 所以我们想确定如果有一个特定的人，他是一种类型的人，哪个特定的人你不想用逗号来形容谁。
If you did, he's the type of person comma who, you're describing all types of people, but again, he has a specific type. Now, I think that is pretty confusing and I just wanna note that I don't think that SAT's ever gonna do that, but if you had a question then the difference between these two is this one is correct because it's a specific person and this one is wrong. Because you aren't describing all types of people.
好吧，我要做一个小测验，因为我觉得这会让人有点困惑。第一，住在1143水路的人 向市政府官员抱怨噪音。这是不是正确？ Basically I'm asking, should I put commas here? Or not.
如果我把逗号放在那里，我是在暗示那个人，有一个人。我就是那个人，我住在1143号水路。 That's absurd. It's a very specific man, so when specific, get rid of the commas. 他们把这叫做一个基本条款，这就是为什么我要在这里，但是你知道吗？
你可以打回回条款。所以我们想摆脱那些通讯，这绝对没关系。 第二个呢？我的生父仍然住在我们身边，他说我们晚上太吵了。 这是对还是错？所以再想想。
我们有，有人吗？如果有很多人，当然有，那么你就不想用逗号。 这个人有一个生父吗？是的，你不能说，哦，我的生父。 Let me now tell you the specific biological father. That would be weird.
你只有一个。所以你想用逗号来抵消。 My biological father, who still lives with us, comma. There's that appositive because there's only one biological father that this person could possibly have. Again this probably is not gonna really be tested on the SAT too much but 我认为这对写作很有帮助，如果你决定写这篇文章，那将有助于你在SAT上。
What we wanna focus though is the interrupters and here we have some interrupters. 你可能想问，什么是中断者？好吧，让我们看看。 SUV的假设并不多。那是个中断。
Meaning it's set off by commas and I could totally get rid of it just like those appositives and not lose the flow. SUVs are not safe vehicles to drive. But someone wants to drop in a little opinion of theirs. 而这种观点是打断人的。SUV不是，我来告诉你有多少辆， how often people are wrong comma safe vehicles drive since they blah blah blah.
That is the idea of an interrupter. Here's another one. 我真的很好奇，我经常想知道你对那个不守规矩的邻居到底在干什么。 Again set off by commas. Not that common but I have seen this on the SAT where a correct 答案选择会把中断器放在里面。
人们认为这很奇怪，选择别的。好吧，最后要说的是逗号拼接。 SAT最喜欢的把戏之一。我们在说使用逗号。 有时候你用它们，SAT使用它们，而且它们是不正确的。这辆车很贵，配备了豪华座椅。
This is a comma splice, why? Take a second, read it. You should answer, it is a comma splice because it is combining two independent clauses. These are both sentences, therefore it should be a comma and a conjunction or a semi-colon or simply a period.
在那里你确实有逗号的用途，以及在SAT上误用逗号。 我将通过实际的段落，开始练习如何理解逗号。 If something is a little bit off and you're just uncertain, than I would watch this video again and read any related blog posts on commas.
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There are lists such as thing a, thing b, and thing c. Those lists should be separated by a comma. That is, here's thing a. Here's thing b, and here's thing c. Comma should separate thing a from b, and thing b from c. So far, so good.
现在，独立从句是另一种完整句的表达方式。如果有两个完整的句子，你可以用逗号和连词， and that should be a coordinating conjunction also know as the FANBOYS. Again, go back to that lesson video if you're not sure 我到底在说什么。但不管怎样，只要逗号，你可以分开句子， independent clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
还有什么？虽然我喜欢跑车带来的力量感， I prefer cars that receive good gas mileage. Subordinate clause is not a complete sentence, it's also known as a dependent clause. It begins here with what is called a subordinating conjunction.
You don't have to know these terms, just know that, though I like the sense of power that comes with a sports car period, is wrong. That is not a complete sentence. You need a comma to separate it from the complete sentence. 我喜欢能行驶良好里程的汽车。可以。继续。
Which. Which starts off an adjective clause. The adjective clause describes that which comes right next to the which. It doesn't describe the subject of the sentence, he. 那会很奇怪的。他开的是特斯拉，那是一辆电动车。
Sometimes you can also just forget the which and say, he is driving a Tesla, an electric car capable of decent performance. You don't always need the which is, especially if you already have a long adjective clause. 你也会看到同位语中的逗号。所以如果我们想描述一个特定的人，詹姆斯，还有 we want to talk about something about James that's not really super important.
Just kind of like a random fact, we want to set that off by commas. James, who is coming over for dinner tonight, just got back from South America. 我们在描述名人时通常会看到这一点。像，圣雄甘地，他带领印度解放反抗英国， 能够争取justi吗ce, that kind of thing. Here though I'm just giving you generic people like Nancy.
她是足球队队长的事实并不是那么重要，只是把它丢在那里。 她在马德里留学有什么重要的，也许她会在那里踢足球谁知道？ Okay those are call appositives, again you don't have to know this terminology just how commas are used and how they're not used.
它们也被用于所谓的基本子句，这与我们刚才看到的哪一个子句和同位语不同。 怎样？好吧，我告诉你，首先让我们看看这个句子。 I'm going to choose a college that is on the East Coast. This is correct.
注意我没说选一所位于东海岸的大学。这意味着美国只有一所大学 that one college is on the East Coast. I want to talk about a specific college, I'm going to narrow down all the possible colleges or at least some of them and say a college that is on the East Coast. A specific college out of all the colleges, one that is on the East Coast.
You would not use a comma there, that is incorrect. Sometimes the SAT will test for that, so be careful. 另外，我们有一个正确的句子。他是那种人。 我为什么把这个放在这里？我们谈过约翰或者上一张幻灯片里的人。
We said comma and then we described that person. Here though, we're talking about a specific type of person. 他是那种人。哪种人？ And so you want to make sure not to put comma who, but just who. No comma there.
And by the way you don't want to put that either. That's another trick they use. People, that is human beings should always be described by who, but here we are dealing of course with commas. 所以我们想确定如果有一个特定的人，他是一种类型的人，哪个特定的人你不想用逗号来形容谁。
If you did, he's the type of person comma who, you're describing all types of people, but again, he has a specific type. Now, I think that is pretty confusing and I just wanna note that I don't think that SAT's ever gonna do that, but if you had a question then the difference between these two is this one is correct because it's a specific person and this one is wrong. Because you aren't describing all types of people.
好吧，我要做一个小测验，因为我觉得这会让人有点困惑。第一，住在1143水路的人 向市政府官员抱怨噪音。这是不是正确？ Basically I'm asking, should I put commas here? Or not.
如果我把逗号放在那里，我是在暗示那个人，有一个人。我就是那个人，我住在1143号水路。 That's absurd. It's a very specific man, so when specific, get rid of the commas. 他们把这叫做一个基本条款，这就是为什么我要在这里，但是你知道吗？
你可以打回回条款。所以我们想摆脱那些通讯，这绝对没关系。 第二个呢？我的生父仍然住在我们身边，他说我们晚上太吵了。 这是对还是错？所以再想想。
我们有，有人吗？如果有很多人，当然有，那么你就不想用逗号。 这个人有一个生父吗？是的，你不能说，哦，我的生父。 Let me now tell you the specific biological father. That would be weird.
你只有一个。所以你想用逗号来抵消。 My biological father, who still lives with us, comma. There's that appositive because there's only one biological father that this person could possibly have. Again this probably is not gonna really be tested on the SAT too much but 我认为这对写作很有帮助，如果你决定写这篇文章，那将有助于你在SAT上。
What we wanna focus though is the interrupters and here we have some interrupters. 你可能想问，什么是中断者？好吧，让我们看看。 SUV的假设并不多。那是个中断。
Meaning it's set off by commas and I could totally get rid of it just like those appositives and not lose the flow. SUVs are not safe vehicles to drive. But someone wants to drop in a little opinion of theirs. 而这种观点是打断人的。SUV不是，我来告诉你有多少辆， how often people are wrong comma safe vehicles drive since they blah blah blah.
That is the idea of an interrupter. Here's another one. 我真的很好奇，我经常想知道你对那个不守规矩的邻居到底在干什么。 Again set off by commas. Not that common but I have seen this on the SAT where a correct 答案选择会把中断器放在里面。
人们认为这很奇怪，选择别的。好吧，最后要说的是逗号拼接。 SAT最喜欢的把戏之一。我们在说使用逗号。 有时候你用它们，SAT使用它们，而且它们是不正确的。这辆车很贵，配备了豪华座椅。
This is a comma splice, why? Take a second, read it. You should answer, it is a comma splice because it is combining two independent clauses. These are both sentences, therefore it should be a comma and a conjunction or a semi-colon or simply a period.
在那里你确实有逗号的用途，以及在SAT上误用逗号。 我将通过实际的段落，开始练习如何理解逗号。 If something is a little bit off and you're just uncertain, than I would watch this video again and read any related blog posts on commas.
