Boundaries: Punctuation and Sentence Structure

SAT Reading and Writing· difficulty 4/5

Toni Morrison's prose ______ poetic, demanding, and emotionally devastating ______ earned her both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

  • A

    , —

  • B

    —,

  • C

    , ,

  • D

    —, —

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Explanation

A pair of em-dashes properly sets off a parenthetical containing internal commas, providing emphasis and clarity. Mismatched punctuation is ungrammatical, and commas alone would create confusion with the internal commas.

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