Standard English ConventionsHardColon introducing an explanation of a result
Standard English Conventions practice question
The garden failed for one ____ nobody watered it in the hottest month of the year.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. reason:Correct
- B. reason,
- C. reason
- D. reason; that
Answer: A. reason:
A complete clause followed by the reason it announces takes a colon.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. reason,
- A comma splice.
- C. reason
- A run-on.
- D. reason; that
- 'That' after a semicolon leaves a fragment.
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