Answer:
I like to read several things: newspapers, magazines, books, and poetry.
Explanation:
I used bold font where I edited the sentence. When you use the colon(:), you are about to use a list. That is exactly what happens in this sentence, so you replace the semicolon(;) which is used to join two or more ideas.
Whenever you are at the end of a list, you always add a comma(,) at the end of the last item before "and," so I put a comma there.
At the time, religion, especially Christianity was extremely popular and greatly influenced the writings at the time. However, <em>The Prince</em>, went against this, defying the ways of their religion.
The subject of a sentence is who or what is doing the action. The predicate explains the action. ... A predicate nominative is a noun that completes the linking verb in a sentence. Predicate adjectives complete the linking verb by describing the subject of a sentence.