5 exercises — practise the exact-specification connector "namely".
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Which sentence correctly uses "namely" to specify exactly what a preceding general term refers to?
"Only one team owns the deployment pipeline, namely the platform infrastructure team" correctly uses a comma before "namely" within the same sentence to specify the single team referred to. Option B wrongly starts a new sentence with "Namely", which cannot stand alone as a sentence opener attached to nothing. Option C inserts an ungrammatical "is". Option D misplaces the comma after "namely" instead of before it.
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Which sentence correctly uses "namely" to specify two exact items making up a previously named general category?
"...namely the billing service and the notification service" correctly signals that these two services are the complete, exact membership of "two services". Options B, C, and D use illustrative connectors ("for example", "such as", "like") that imply a partial, non-exhaustive list, which contradicts the exact number "two" already given.
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Which sentence correctly places "namely" mid-sentence, set off by commas, rather than at the very end of the clause?
"...a single root cause, namely a misconfigured load balancer, and was resolved..." correctly opens the appositive with a comma before "namely" and closes it with a comma after the specification. Option B misplaces the comma after the head noun instead of before "namely". Option C places "namely" after the specified noun instead of before it. Option D adds an unnecessary "being".
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Which sentence correctly distinguishes "namely" (exact specification) from "that is" (reformulation in different words)?
"...is unpinned, namely lodash; that is, its version can drift between builds" correctly uses "namely" to specify the exact dependency and "that is" to reformulate what "unpinned" means. Options B, C, and D swap the two connectors into the wrong slots, pairing "namely" with a reformulation and "that is" with a specific name.
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Which sentence correctly uses "namely" after a colon-introduced general statement to specify the exact requirement referred to?
"...fails on one requirement: namely, backward compatibility with the v1 API" correctly follows the colon with "namely" to specify exactly which single requirement is meant. Option B uses "for instance", which wrongly implies there could be other unnamed requirements. Option C misplaces the colon after "namely". Option D inserts an ungrammatical "it is".