Standard English ConventionsHardClosing an appositive about volunteers
Standard English Conventions practice question
The festival's organisers, most of them ____ have run it for a decade.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. volunteers,Correct
- B. volunteers
- C. volunteers;
- D. volunteers, and they
Answer: A. volunteers,
The phrase most of them volunteers is set off by a pair of commas.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. volunteers
- The closing comma is missing.
- C. volunteers;
- A semicolon leaves a fragment before it.
- D. volunteers, and they
- The added clause leaves the subject organisers without a verb.
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