Question

Help please!!!! Proofread this excerpt from a review of the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Which sentence contains punctuation errors?
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Answer 1

Answer:

I'm pretty sure the punctuation error is in the third sentence;

'This struggle plays out chiefly through the protagonist; Charlie, who anchors the film brilliantly.'

Just after the word 'protagonist', the author uses a semi-colon (;). A semi-colon is used to link two separate clauses that have similar ideas together. It turns two clauses into one.

In this situation, the semi-colon is not doing that, because that would imply that if we were to separate the "two clauses", it would look like this:

"This struggle plays out chiefly through the protagonist. Charlie, who anchors the film brilliantly."

This wouldn't make sense. Instead of a semi-colon, the author should've used a comma!

Answer 2

Answer:

This struggle plays out chiefly through the protagonist; Charlie, who anchors the film brilliantly.

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