Choose the sentence in which the appositive or appositive phrase is essential to the sentence and punctuated correctly.

a. this trip, the result of an election bet, took ten days

b. this trip the result, of an election bet, took ten days

Hat do the words partial, palatial, and potential have in common? they have the same prefix. they have the same suffix. they have similar meanings. they have the same word root.

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.

In at least two hundred words, discuss why "désirée's baby" is or is not relevant today.