Standard English ConventionsMediumAppositive for a bakery's best seller
Standard English Conventions practice question
The bakery's best-selling ____ a rye loaf with caraway seeds, sells out by ten.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. item,Correct
- B. item;
- C. item
- D. item:
Answer: A. item,
The appositive is set off by a pair of commas.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. item;
- A semicolon cannot open an appositive.
- C. item
- The opening comma is missing.
- D. item:
- A colon does not pair with the closing comma.
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