Read the sentence. The phone call, from the admissions office, made me ecstatic. What is the best way to revise the sentence so that the punctuation is correct?
Answer
A
The phone call (from the admissions office) made me happy.
B
The phone call from the admissions office made me happy.
C
The phone call—from the admissions office—made me happy.
D
The phone call from the admissions office, made me happy.
Explanation
“From the admissions office” identifies which phone call, so it is essential to the sentence and should not be set off with commas, parentheses, or dashes. Choice B correctly leaves it unpunctuated: “The phone call from the admissions office made me happy.”
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