Read the passage below: Did Edgar Allan Poe's parents name their son after a character in a play? Poe's
parents, both travel actors, were performing in Shakespeare's King Lear the year of
their son's birth.
Explain why the appositive phrase "both traveling actors" is enclosed in commas
The phrase is a fragment
The phrase is not essential to the meaning of the sentence
The writer likes commas
It is written incorrectly