Question dolore
Dolores Huerta’s advocacy on behalf of farmworkers was rooted in her experience as a schoolteacher in Stockton, California, in the early 1950s. Hoping to help her students and their families outside the blank Huerta left teaching to start the Stockton chapter of the Community Service Organization, a group focused on the needs of local farmworkers.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
classroom.
classroom;
classroom,
classroom
Dolores Huerta’s advocacy on behalf of farmworkers was rooted in her experience as a schoolteacher in
Medium-difficulty · SAT Reading & Writing · Boundaries — Parenthetical punctuation: commas, dashes, parentheses. Read the question above, select your answer, and check the full explanation below to understand exactly why the correct choice works.
Answer explanation
Choice C is the best answer. The convention being tested is the use of punctuation within a sentence. This choice correctly uses a comma to mark the boundary between the introductory participial phrase ("Hoping…classroom") and the main clause ("Huerta…farmworkers").
Choice A is incorrect because it results in a rhetorically unacceptable sentence fragment beginning with "hoping." Choice B is incorrect because a semicolon can’t be used in this way to mark the boundary between the participial phrase ("Hoping…classroom") and the main clause ("Huerta…farmworkers"). Choice D is incorrect because it fails to mark the boundary between the participial phrase ("Hoping…classroom") and the main clause ("Huerta…farmworkers").
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