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Read the following sentence:

My blue bicycle is in the shop where Lucy who works at the racetrack now used to work before she took up blacksmithing.

Which version highlights the relative clause and punctuates it correctly?


My blue bicycle is in the shop where Lucy, who works at the racetrack now used to work, before she took up blacksmithing.


My blue bicycle is in the shop where Lucy who works at the racetrack now used to work, before she took up blacksmithing.


My blue bicycle is in the shop where Lucy, who works at the racetrack now, used to work before she took up blacksmithing.


My blue bicycle is in the shop where Lucy, who works at the racetrack, now used to work before she took up blacksmithing

Answer 1

My blue bicycle is in the shop where Lucy, who works at the racetrack now, used to work before she took up blacksmithing.

Reason: "who works at the racetrack now" is a nonrestrictive (extra) clause and needs commas around it; placing "now" inside that clause avoids the awkward/readily contradictory phrase "now used to work."