Answer:
B. Christopher Wren, a contemporary of Isaac Newton and John Locke, was the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Explanation:
B. Christopher Wren, a contemporary of Isaac Newton and John Locke, was the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Correct: The phrase "a contemporary of Isaac Newton and John Locke" is a nonrestrictive appositive phrase that renames and gives further description of the noun Christopher Wren, and since nonrestrictive appositive phrases should always be framed by commas, dashes or parenthesis, this sentence is correctly punctuated.
A. Claire's plum pudding was mainly distinctive, for its absence of plums.
Incorrect: one of the uses of commas is to join two complete sentences into a single sentence when it is followed by the connecting words and, or, but, yet or while. The comma in sentence A is unnecessary because the sentence does not have two complete ideas nor does it have one of the connecting words mentioned.
C. After a fire at their home, Carlie and her mother rented a house in Glendale Arizona from November 14, 2007 to January 28, 2008.
Incorrect: The sentence is missing a comma after the year “2007” because when a date appears in the middle of a sentence, commas should be placed before and after the year.
D. William of Orange, arrived in England in 1688, to claim the English throne from James II.
Incorrect: Another of the uses of commas is to set off information that is not essential to the meaning of the sentence. “arrived in England in 1688” is information that is essential to the meaning of the sentence, therefore, it should not be separated by commas.
