SAT Form, Structure, and Sense Question
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Question 1 · Hard · Reading and WritingDecember 2024 · Q20Form, Structure, and Sense · 0 solved
Just as the Arrhenius equation in chemistry is named not after its first discoverer but after the physicist who further developed the equation, so too does the Cavendish balance in physics take its name from a <u>________</u> who was not the first to construct the device. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
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One dash in, one comma out: the SAT's mismatched-pair trap — When punctuation brackets an interrupting phrase, both ends must match. Mixing a dash with a comma is an instant wrong answer.