Question

Which of the following is punctuated correctly?

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The sentence that is punctuated correctly is:

c. I practiced my presentation for three hours this afternoon; it is on management strategies.

2. The punctuation rule illustrated by the sentence is:

Use a semicolon to separate items in a series when one or more of the items contain internal commas.

Explanation:

1. Options A and B contain run-on sentences, which are the result of incorrectly joining two independent clauses with either nothing at all or just a comma but no conjunction. Option C, on the other hand, punctuates correctly when it uses a semicolon. A semicolon properly joins independent clauses without causing them to become a run-on sentence.

2. When we list items in a series, it is common to separate them with commas. However, the items themselves main contain internal commas, which is precisely the case here - for example:  Mary Ortega, founder of Season Fruit Shipping . When that happens, we use a semicolon to separate the different items.