{"id":"cb_question_bank:4ff6aa6d-6d5d-4cf9-9900-064791eac58f","source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_item_id":"4ff6aa6d-6d5d-4cf9-9900-064791eac58f","external_id":"86945868-34a5-4eb0-b377-c4a626dd62d0","ibn":null,"question_id":"70ced8dc","program":"SAT","module":"english","domain_code":"SEC","domain":"Standard English Conventions","skill_code":"BOU","skill":"Boundaries","difficulty":"E","score_band":3,"answer_type":"mcq","answer_source":"key","layout_warning":null,"form_id":null,"module_number":null,"position":null,"stem":"Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?","stimulus":"Typically, underlines, scribbles, and notes left in the margins by a former owner lower a book’s ______ blank when the former owner is a famous poet like Walt Whitman, such markings, known as marginalia, can be a gold mine to literary scholars.","stimulus_html":"<p>Typically, underlines, scribbles, and notes left in the margins by a former owner lower a book’s <span>______</span><span class=\"sr-only\">blank</span> when the former owner is a famous poet like Walt Whitman, such markings, known as marginalia, can be a gold mine to literary scholars.</p>","stem_html":"<p>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?</p>","rationale_html":"<p>Choice A is the best answer. The convention being tested is the coordination of independent clauses within a sentence. An independent clause is a phrase containing a subject and a verb that can stand on its own as a sentence. This choice uses a comma and the coordinating conjunction “but” to join the first independent clause (“underlines…lower a book’s value”) and the second independent clause (“such markings…can be a gold mine to scholars”) to create a compound sentence. </p><p>Choice B is incorrect because&nbsp;it results in a run-on sentence. The two independent clauses are fused without punctuation and/or a conjunction. Choice C is incorrect because it results in a comma splice.&nbsp;A comma can’t be used in this way to mark the boundary between two independent clauses. Choice D is incorrect because&nbsp;a comma is needed to mark the boundary between two coordinated independent clauses. </p>","correct_answer":["A"],"has_media":false,"has_mathml":false,"has_table":false,"source_created_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.341000+00:00","source_updated_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.341000+00:00","options":[{"label":"A","content_html":"<p>value, but</p>","ord":0},{"label":"B","content_html":"<p>value</p>","ord":1},{"label":"C","content_html":"<p>value,&nbsp;</p>","ord":2},{"label":"D","content_html":"<p>value but</p>","ord":3}],"attribution":{"source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_name":"College Board digital SAT question bank (community dump)","rights_holder":"College Board","canonical_url":"https://satsuitequestionbank.collegeboard.org/","retrieved_from":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdn522/sat-question-bank/main/data/cb-digital-questions.json","attribution":"SAT practice questions © College Board, from the official SAT Suite Question Bank. Retrieved via the community dump at github.com/mdn522/sat-question-bank.","disclaimer":"SAT® and PSAT/NMSQT® are trademarks registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, does not sponsor, and does not endorse this project.","license":"College Board copyright; source repository carries no licence. Local use only.","redistributable":false,"item_count":2017}}