Standard English ConventionsEasyColon before a list of cities
Standard English Conventions practice question
We visited three cities on our ____ Rome, Florence, and Venice.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. trip:Correct
- B. trip;
- C. trip,
- D. trip
Answer: A. trip:
A colon introduces the list after a complete sentence.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. trip;
- A semicolon does not introduce a list.
- C. trip,
- A comma would blur the list into the sentence.
- D. trip
- Something must separate the sentence from the list.
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