Question

At the University of California, Los Angeles, he was a star player of football, basketball, (3)track, and baseball there he was the first athlete in UCLA history to letter in four different sports.
Read the passage underlined (3). There may be a mistake in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling. If you find a mistake choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct as is.’

A) Correct as is.
B) track, and baseball, there he was the first athlete in UCLA history
C) track, and baseball: there he was the first athlete in UCLA history
D) track, and baseball; there he was the first athlete in UCLA history

Answer 1

Answer:

D is the correct answer, trust me.

Explanation:

track, and baseball; there he was the first athlete in UCLA history is the correct answer because the sentence is a run-on sentence. It can be separated into two independent clauses that may be joined by a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon.