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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?

  1. A. trip:Correct
  2. B. trip;
  3. C. trip,
  4. 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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