Question

NEED HELP ASAP
Match the sentence to the term that it illustrates.

1. My mother—what a pianist—taught me all I know about music.
2. Yes, I feel that water color is an exciting hobby for an artist.
3. As if he had never seen one before, Jerry stared at the beautiful pyramid.
4. Cambodia, an interesting country, is located in southeast Asia.
5. The Eustachian tube is, of course, essential for correct hearing.

A. a sudden break in thought
B. an appositive
C. an introductory interjection
D. a parenthetical expression\
E. an introductory adverbial clause
D

Answer 1

1. D
2. C
3. E
4. B
5. A

Dashes — the lines surrounding “what a pianist” in number one — act as an excellent replacement for parentheses. I personally use them a lot more often. For number two, interjections are words like “Oh, ah, yes, no, wow, ouch, ew, huh,” and since the interjection is being placed at the very beginning directly before the clause and evidently introducing it, that is also why it is called introductory. For number three, appositives are phrases or other words that rename a noun. “An interesting country” is being used to rename “Cambodia.” A set of commas always separates appositives, as you can see in the sentence, and are always next to the noun the appositive is renaming. For number five, phrases like: “of course, though, by the way” can be used in the middle of a thought to interrupt it for a second before returning to the rest of the sentence.