Question

Which of the following sentences contains the BEST type of punctuation?

A. Jasmine’s father (the Sultan of Agrabah) was not amused when Jasmine rejected each of the suitors who came to ask her hand in marriage.
B. Jasmine’s father, the Sultan of Agrabah, was not amused when Jasmine rejected each of the suitors who came to ask her hand in marriage.
C. Jasmine’s father — the Sultan of Agrabah — was not amused when Jasmine rejected each of the suitors who came to ask her hand in marriage.
D. Jasmine’s father the Sultan of Agrabah was not amused when Jasmine rejected each of the suitors who came to ask her hand in marriage.

Answer 1

Which of the following sentences contains the BEST type of punctuation?
B. Jasmine’s father, the Sultan of Agrabah, was not amused when Jasmine rejected each of the suitors who came to ask her hand in marriage.

Answer 2

The correct answer is B. Jasmine’s father, the Sultan of Agrabah, was not amused when Jasmine rejected each of the suitors who came to ask her hand in marriage.
The phrase 'the sultan of Agrabah' is an appositive phrase, meaning that it is used to describe the subject of a sentence further. In most cases, appositive phrases are separated from the rest of the sentence using commas on both sides, which is the case here.