C. Suzie, my best friend, is also an amazing athlete.
It is the sentence that does not contain any errors in comma usage.
Usage of commas
1) to separate items in a series
2) to separate coordinating adjectives
3) to separate two independent clauses (compound sentence)
4) to separate the introductory words from the independent clause.
5) to separate nonessential words, phrases, and clauses
* All choices contain an "appositive". An appositive renames the subject.
My best friend is an appositive for Suzie.Thus it is enclosed by commas to separate it from the rest of the sentence.
Answer:
C. They give background information about the topic.
Explanation:
Sentences 2, 3, and 4 gives the reader background knowledge about what they're reading.
Answer:
Private citizens, corporations, and foundations already spend billions of dollars each year to support the arts.
Explanation:
The piece of evidence that best supports this claim is "Private citizens, corporations, and foundations already spend billions of dollars each year to support the arts".
Actually, who are the taxpayers? They are private citizens, corporations and foundations. That means if the government is using taxpayers' money to fund arts, indirectly it means that the billions of dollars spent each year to support arts are the monies of the private citizens, corporations and foundations. This then means that these private citizens, foundations and corporations are actually the ones supporting the arts through the taxes they pay.
As in the history of the Russian revolution ( that animal farm mirrors ) Snowball aka. Leon Trotsky was the popular leader and thus would have opposed the oppression of the populous that Napoleon aka Joseph Stalin wanted.
