Question

Choose the sentence that is correctly punctuated.
Group of answer choices

The land that is now Oklahoma the Sooner state, was once owned by France.

Mick showed me his present, a new CD player.

Kind Mrs. Grant, a quiet woman enjoys photography.

Mel Gibson the famous actor also directs movies.

Answer 1

@justjm

Answer 2

It seems to be testing you restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. Let's go through each sentence.

(1) \(\text{The land that is now Oklahoma the Sooner state, was once owned by France.}\)
It looks like 'the Sooner state' is a clause that describes 'the land that is now Oklahoma, and it would be nonrestrictive. However, there is no comma prior to 'the'. This is incorrectly punctuated.

(2) \(\text{Mick showed me his present, a new CD player.}\)
'a new CD player' describes 'present'. The comma is used appropriately.

(3) \(\text{Kind Mrs. Grant, a quiet woman enjoys photography.}\)
'A quiet woman' describes Mrs. Grant, but there is no comma after the woman.

(4) \(\text{Mel Gibson the famous actor also directs movies.}\)
'The famous actor' should be a nonrestrictive clause, but there are no commas that separate the clause.

Answer 3

Hence the correctly punctuated sentence would be sentence 2

Answer 4

Thank you so much :)