Choose the option that correctly punctuates a restrictive relative clause.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. The software engineer who designed the firewall was promoted yesterday.
- Step 1: A restrictive clause is essential to identify which software engineer is being discussed (it restricts the identity to the one who designed the firewall).
- Step 2: Restrictive clauses should not be separated from the noun by commas.
Answer
The software engineer who designed the firewall was promoted yesterday.
Why not the others: The sentence 'The software engineer, who designed the firewall, was promoted yesterday' encloses a restrictive clause in commas as if it were non-essential; the sentence 'was, promoted yesterday' places an erroneous comma between auxiliary 'was' and participle 'promoted'; the sentence 'The software, engineer who designed the firewall, was promoted yesterday' splits noun phrase 'software engineer' erratically.
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