Known for her massive photorealistic paintings of African American ﬁgures ﬂoating or swimming in pools, Calida Garcia
______ was the logical choice to design the book cover for Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, a novel about an African
American man who can travel great distances through water.
Rawles—
Rawles:
Rawles,
Rawles
Choice D is the best answer. The convention being tested is punctuation between a subject and a verb. When, as in this case,
a subject (“Calida Garcia Rawles”) is immediately followed by a verb (“was”), no punctuation is needed.
Choice A is incorrect because no punctuation is needed between the subject and the verb. Choice B is incorrect because no
punctuation is needed between the subject and the verb. Choice C is incorrect because no punctuation is needed between
the subject and the verb.