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question 34
what change, if any, is necessary with the underlined portion of the following sentence?
texting is convenient because its fast and direct; for example if you text someone, data shows that you can expect a reply in about three minutes. (paragraph 2)

• for example if you text someone
• for example, if you text someone,
• for example; if you text someone,
• correct as is

question 35
what change, if any, is necessary with the underlined portion of the following sentence?
students can also text about extra - curricular activities or, as one teenager argues, \we can use our phones to let parents the phone purchasers know we are running late.\ (paragraph 2)

• parents... know
• parents the phone, purchasers know,
• parents... the phone purchasers... know
• correct as is

Explanation:

Question 34

To determine the correct punctuation, we analyze the structure. "For example" is an introductory phrase, so it should be followed by a comma. The clause "if you text someone" is part of the example and should be set off with commas as it's a dependent clause within the example. So the correct option is the one with "for example, if you text someone,".

The underlined part has a redundancy and awkward phrasing. "Parents" and "the phone purchasers" likely refer to the same group (parents who purchased the phones), so we can use an ellipsis to show the omitted (redundant) part for clarity. The correct option is the one that uses ellipses to simplify the phrase to "parents … know" as "the phone purchasers" is redundant when referring to parents.

Answer:

B. for example, if you text someone,

Question 35