Standard English ConventionsVery hardNonrestrictive clause inside a subject
Standard English Conventions practice question
The committee's report, ____ was read by almost no one.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. which ran to four hundred pages,Correct
- B. which ran to four hundred pages
- C. that ran to four hundred pages,
- D. ran to four hundred pages,
Answer: A. which ran to four hundred pages,
The "which" clause is nonessential and is closed by a comma before the main verb.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. which ran to four hundred pages
- The clause is opened but not closed.
- C. that ran to four hundred pages,
- "that" clauses do not take commas, and the opening comma is already there.
- D. ran to four hundred pages,
- Two verbs with one subject and a stray comma: a run-on.
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