-Answer: Since Paula started attending culinary school last spring, she's become far more discerning in her resturant choices," Shawn observed.
-Explanation: A comma was added after the word 'spring' to avoid this sentence becoming a run-on sentence. The comma acts as a separator or a 'pause' between the numerous words in the sentence.
<span>I believe the semicolon is used to separate two closely related independent clauses (phrases that can be sentences by themselves).</span>
