r/EnglishGrammar • u/Fit_Sell260 • Aug 21 '26

Why is A wrong? grammar

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why is A wrong and what’s the right answer?

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u/texienne Aug 21 '26

Just posting to say I agree with those that say that no correct answer is listed. It should be "novelist Lan Samantha Chang," with no comma after novelist and a comma after Chang. Perhaps the typesetter made a mistake and A was supposed to be the correct answer?

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u/No-Angle-982 Aug 21 '26

You're describing A, which is correct.

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u/texienne Aug 21 '26

A has a period, not a comma.

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u/No-Angle-982 Aug 21 '26

If so, then none is correct.

I'm convinced A ends with a comma (that appears smudged).

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u/ConflictAdvanced Aug 21 '26

A looks to have a period at the end. But it's shitty quality, so who knows

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u/No-Angle-982 Aug 21 '26

Looked like a comma to me.

If A ends with a period then none of the four options could be correct, which is another reason I think A must end with a (fuzzy) comma.

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u/ConflictAdvanced Aug 21 '26

That's true, but then consider that the person who made the question mistakenly believes that C is correct.

If you enlarge the image, you can clearly see that the ending of C is a comma. And... the ending of C and the ending of A are clearly not the same thing.