Standard English ConventionsMediumCommas around a nonessential phrase with 'including'
Standard English Conventions practice question
Several ____ including the tallest in the county, were felled by the storm.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. beeches,Correct
- B. beeches
- C. beeches;
- D. beeches:
Answer: A. beeches,
'Including the tallest in the county' is nonessential and is closed by a comma, so it opens with one.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. beeches
- The phrase is closed but not opened.
- C. beeches;
- A semicolon can't open a phrase.
- D. beeches:
- Nor can a colon.
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