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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?

  1. A. item,Correct
  2. B. item;
  3. C. item
  4. 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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