Question

Which sentences are punctuated correctly?

Answer 1

The answers are 2 and 3.

 Sentence 2: One of the uses of the colon is to introduce an item or a series of items. These items, after the colon, are written with lower case. "Thats the other thing I leaned: being active..."

Sentence 3.  If a quotation contains two or more sentences, we use a colon.  The two independent clauses in the quotation are connected by a semicolon.

Answer 2

Answer:

2. That's the other thing I learned: being active is just as important as eating better foods.

3. Over the years, many of us have read the words of Henry B. Adams: “A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops.”

Explanation:

Colons can introduce an item or a series of items when it is preceded by a complete thought like in option 2, where the semicolon introduces an idea and is preceded by “That's the other thing I learned,” which is a clause expressing a complete thought.

Colons are also used to introduce quotations, such as in option 3, where it introduces the quote “A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops.”

The other punctuation found in option 3 are also correctly placed: commas are to be placed after Introductory Phrases like “Over the years,” quotation marks are used to enclose quotes like “A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops;” semicolons link two independent clauses closely related but that are not linked with a conjunction, such as it links the two clauses within the quote and lastly, the period is also correctly placed because when a quotation ends a sentence, the period is placed before the final quotation mark.