Question

WILL MARK BRAINIES!!!!PLZ HELP!!!! The following answer choices contain a paragraph from a John Muir article. Read each answer choice and select the one that uses semicolons correctly. Two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of Yosemite Valley, I found a book. It was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. The paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried; however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. And although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. This is the condition of the great open book of Yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book. Two years ago; when picking flowers in the mountains back of Yosemite Valley, I found a book. It was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. The paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried; however many of the inner pages were well preserved. And although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. This is the condition of the great open book of Yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book. Two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of Yosemite Valley, I found a book. It was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. The paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. And although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. This is the condition of the great open book of Yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book. Two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of Yosemite Valley; I found a book. It was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. The paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. And although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. This is the condition of the great open book of Yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer should be the first one.

Explanation:

A semicolon is used to join two independent clauses.

It links up two related ideas by narrowing the gap between the ideas of two separate sentences. You can use semicolons to divide the items of a list if the items are long or contain internal punctuation

In simpler terms, anywhere you can place an "and" or a "but", you can also place a semicolon. This simple trick can be used when you're solving questions like this. Just take out the semicolons in a sentence and replace them with "and" or "but". If it doesn't make sense, it's not correct!

Hope this helps!