Standard English ConventionsHardColon before an explanatory noun phrase
Standard English Conventions practice question
Only one thing stood between the climbers and the ____ a wall of ice two hundred feet high.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. summit:Correct
- B. summit;
- C. summit,
- D. summit
Answer: A. summit:
A colon introduces the phrase that explains what the one thing was.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. summit;
- A semicolon needs a complete sentence after it.
- C. summit,
- A comma would make the wall of ice an appositive for the summit.
- D. summit
- No separation between the sentence and its explanation.
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