A semicolon is used to separate two complete sentences that are related in some way. Answer choices A and D both use a semicolon to separate two complete sentences, however, answer choice A combined two unrelated sentences. D is correct.
Answer:
It was Lexie's birthday and she could not be more excited. She turned sixteen that day and thought everyone would want to celebrate her because they always did. However her day did not go as she planned it would. Her morning brought sadness and feelings of being forgotten because her mother was not even their to wish her happy birthday. On her way to school she assumed her friends and teachers would remember however they did not. She contained her emotions but she felt like crying. Feeling all alone because everyone had forgotten and her friends disappeared she went home. When she got home however her feelings changed. Everyone surprised her for her birthday and she no longer felt forgotten.
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I suggest you look up the modern English definition and find out if it is a verb or not and go on pairing the words from there. We did an assignment like this in class last year, and that's what my teacher suggest we should do.
I feel like the answer could be either direct or indirect, because you need a direct object to have an indirect object, and there is both in this example.