Dr. Ronald Shaw, HER COLLEAGUE, concurs with the theory of a black hole at the galactic center of the milky way. The appositive phrase in this sentence is "her colleague" and this refers to the noun "Dr. Ronald Shaw". An appositive phrase consists of words that serves as an additional information about the noun it describes. Usually, appositive phrases are enclosed with a pair of commas.
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B: When running for a political office, a candidate must be willing to fight for his positions, to state his beliefs articulately, and look confident while doing so.
This statement has been written correctly.
<u>Explanation</u>:
Punctuation is very important in a writing. The reader can understand the meaning properly and even the writing appears more appealing. Without punctuation, correct meaning might not reach to the reader. He might lose his interest in reading.
Option B has correct punctuation marks, i.e. there is a comma after office and after positions. Also, “to state his beliefs” is grammatically correct. In other options, use of “stating his beliefs” in Option D and “to look confident” in Option C makes both the sentences grammatically wrong. In Option A, use of ‘state his beliefs’ and ‘to look’ are incorrect as well.
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it has 3,100 miles of river
number one producer of potatoes , Austrian winter peas
