Question

Victory gardens planted in people’s backyards during both WWI and WWII to provide additional food supplies are making a comeback.

Which is the best way to revise this sentence?


Victory gardens, planted in people’s backyards during both WWI and WWII to provide additional food supplies—are making a comeback.


Victory gardens—planted in people’s backyards during both WWI and WWII to provide additional food supplies—are making a comeback.


Victory gardens—planted in people’s backyards during both WWI and WWII to provide additional food supplies, are making a comeback.


Victory gardens, planted in people’s backyards during both WWI and WWII to provide additional food supplies, are making a comeback.

Answer 1

D)Victory gardens, planted in people’s backyards during both WWI and WWII to provide additional food supplies, are making a comeback.

You can use commas to make an explanatory pause in the sentence, a cool trick to know where to start it, and where to end an explanatory comma is:

If you read the sentece without what´s written between the commas and it´s understandable, then you have done a good job with your commas.