Question

Identify and correct any error/s in line [14].

• A. NO CHANGE
• B. Parts: "king" and "man,"
• C. Parts "king" and "man";
• D. Parts; "king" and "man"

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Parts: "king" and "man,"

Option B is the correct answer because the colon after “parts” effectively signals that what follows in the sentence further defines what the “two parts” of Kingman’s name are and because the comma after “man” properly indicates that “king and man” and Cantonese for ‘scenery’ and ‘composition’ are non-restrictive appositives. Non-restrictive appositives simply add extra information, and they need commas before/around them.

Option A, “no change”, is not the correct answer because the semicolon after “man” incorrectly joins an independent clause and a phrase. Moreover, the comma after “parts” is arguably a weak form of punctuation to be signalling the strong break in the sentence indicated here.

Option C is incorrect because the semicolon after “man” incorrectly joins an independent clause and a phrase and because the absence of a comma after “parts” fails to indicate that “two parts” and “king and man” are non-restrictive appositives.

Option D is incorrect because the semicolon after “parts” incorrectly joins an independent clause and phrases and because the absence of a comma after “man” fails to indicate that “king and man” and Cantonese for ‘scenery’ and ‘composition’ are non-restrictive appositives.