in the following four assessment items choose the sentence in which the appositive or appositive phrase is essential to the sentence and punctuated correctly?
A) This trip, the result of an election bet, took ten days.
B) This trip the result, of an election bet took ten days.
The sentence in which the appositive or appositive phrase is essential to the sentence and punctuated correctly is: A) This trip, the result of an election bet, took ten days.
The correct sentence in which the appositive or appositive phrase is essential to the sentence and punctuated correctly is:
A) This trip, the result of an election bet, took ten days.
To determine which sentence has the appositive or appositive phrase, let's first understand what an appositive is. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames or provides additional information about another noun right beside it. It usually appears right after or before the noun it modifies.
Now, let's analyze the two sentences given:
A) This trip, the result of an election bet, took ten days.
B) This trip the result, of an election bet took ten days.
In sentence A, we can see that the appositive phrase "the result of an election bet" is set off with commas and provides essential information about the trip. Without this phrase, the sentence would still make sense, but it would lack important details about why the trip occurred.
In sentence B, the phrase "the result" is separated from "of an election bet" with a comma, but it does not provide essential information to the sentence. The phrase is not clear and does not give a complete meaning or purpose to the trip.
Therefore, the correct answer is A) This trip, the result of an election bet, took ten days.