{"id":"cb_question_bank:6ac7c07b-50ab-4936-92a8-b6ded1e5acdb","source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_item_id":"6ac7c07b-50ab-4936-92a8-b6ded1e5acdb","external_id":"27e36990-ad17-4dc7-9600-2b97b847f0c5","ibn":null,"question_id":"eef91a50","program":"SAT","module":"english","domain_code":"SEC","domain":"Standard English Conventions","skill_code":"BOU","skill":"Boundaries","difficulty":"M","score_band":4,"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":"Nine months before Rosa Parks made history by refusing to comply with the segregated seating policy on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, a fifteen-year-old Montgomery girl named Claudette Colvin was arrested for the same ______ blank to some historians, Colvin’s arrest led to Parks’s action and eventually to the desegregation of Montgomery’s bus system.","stimulus_html":"<p>Nine months before Rosa Parks made history by refusing to comply with the segregated seating policy on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, a fifteen-year-old Montgomery girl named Claudette Colvin was arrested for the same <span>______</span><span class=\"sr-only\">blank</span> to some historians, Colvin’s arrest led to Parks’s action and eventually to the desegregation of Montgomery’s bus system.</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. “Nine months…offense” and “according to…system” are both independent clauses. Separating them with a period and turning them into their own sentences is the only grammatically correct choice among the provided options. </p><p>Choice B is incorrect. This choice results in a comma splice error, which is a punctuation error that occurs when two independent clauses are joined by only a comma. “Nine months…offense” and “according to…system” are both independent clauses, so they need to be either joined by a semicolon, joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction, or separated by a period. Choice C is incorrect. This choice results in a run-on sentence, which occurs when two independent clauses are joined without punctuation. “Nine months…offense” and “according to…system” are both independent clauses, so they need to be either joined by a semicolon, joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction, or separated by a period. Choice D is incorrect. This choice results in a run-on sentence, which occurs when two independent clauses are joined without punctuation. “Nine months…offense” and “according to…system” are independent clauses, so we would need to put a comma before the coordinating conjunction “and” to join them properly. </p>","correct_answer":["A"],"has_media":false,"has_mathml":false,"has_table":false,"source_created_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.359000+00:00","source_updated_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.359000+00:00","options":[{"label":"A","content_html":"<p>offense. According</p>","ord":0},{"label":"B","content_html":"<p>offense, according</p>","ord":1},{"label":"C","content_html":"<p>offense according</p>","ord":2},{"label":"D","content_html":"<p>offense and according</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}}