Question

Which of the following sentences with internal sentence interrupters use correct punctuation? Check all that apply. The VP of finance, not the CFO, works with the departmental managers to develop internal budgets. The management team discussed implementing an intranet system that included a secure chat function. Our graduates, having had two full semesters of workplace communication, always do well in the job market. Consequently they lost control of the situation. Precipice Financial’s hedge fund which produces extremely high returns includes very risky investments.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is The VP of finance, not the CFO, works with the departmental managers to develop internal budgets. and Our graduates, having had two full semesters of workplace communication, always do well in the job market.

Explanation:

We use the sentence interruoters to indicate information that is not relevant to the sentence. This information, not being important, must be separated by two commas.

What is inside the comma should not interfere with the final meaning of the sentence and its understanding. We could remove that part and the sentence should continue to make sense.

In this case we have the following sentences:

The VP of finance, not the CFO, works with the departmental managers to develop internal budgets.

Our graduates, having had two full semesters of workplace communication, always do well in the job market.

Let's see what happens if we remove what is located between the commas:

The VP of finance works with the departmental managers to develop internal budgets.

Our graduates always do well in the job market.

As we can see, both sentences still make sense, which indicates that this information was not relevant and was well punctuated by being located between two commas.