Standard English ConventionsVery hardCommas around an interrupting phrase
Standard English Conventions practice question
The lighthouse ____ was the last on the coast to be automated.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. keeper's cottage, now a museum,Correct
- B. keeper's cottage now a museum
- C. keeper's cottage, now a museum
- D. keeper's cottage now a museum,
Answer: A. keeper's cottage, now a museum,
'Now a museum' interrupts the subject and its verb; commas on both sides.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. keeper's cottage now a museum
- No commas make the phrase run into both subject and verb.
- C. keeper's cottage, now a museum
- Opened but not closed.
- D. keeper's cottage now a museum,
- Closed but not opened.
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