Standard English ConventionsEasyColon before a list of ingredients
Standard English Conventions practice question
The recipe needs three ____ flour, sugar, and eggs.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. things:Correct
- B. things;
- C. things,
- D. things
Answer: A. things:
A colon introduces the list.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. things;
- A semicolon does not introduce a list.
- C. things,
- A comma would run the list into the sentence.
- D. things
- No separation before the list.
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