Santa Clara Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell’s sculpture Mud Woman Rolls On consists of ﬁve human ﬁgures made of clay
and plant ﬁber and arranged in descending size; each ﬁgure holds the smaller one in front of it. The arrangement of the
ﬁgures, according to ______ represents her idea that “we all come from the Earth, generation after generation.”
Swentzell
Swentzell,
Swentzell:
Swentzell—
Choice B is the best answer. The phrase “according to Swentzell” is an aside that interrupts the ﬂow of the sentence, so it
needs to be separated from the sentence with a pair of matching punctuation marks: two commas, two dashes, or a pair of
parentheses. We already have a comma before “according,” so we must add a comma after “Swentzell.” .
Choice A is incorrect. This choice creates a punctuation error. The phrase “according to Swentzell” is an aside that interrupts
the ﬂow of the sentence, so it needs to be separated from the sentence with a pair of matching punctuation marks: one
before and one after the phrase. Choice C is incorrect. This choice creates a punctuation error. “The arrangement of the
ﬁgures, according to Swentzell” is not an independent clause, so it can’t come before a colon. Choice D is incorrect. This
choice creates a punctuation error. The phrase “according to Swentzell” is an aside that interrupts the ﬂow of the sentence,
so it needs to be separated from the sentence with a pair of matching punctuation marks. We already have a comma at the
beginning, so we have to use another comma here to match. We can’t just switch to a dash! .