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Answers to Interactive quiz on commas,
semicolons, colons and dashes
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1. The test was 5 pages long but we had studied for two hours
each day for a week to prepare.
C) long but
Examine the sentence carefully: the first group of words has a subject (test)
and a verb (was); the second group of words also has a subject (we) and a verb
(had studied). Therefore, they must be joined with a period, a semicolon,
or a comma before a FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so). Since the second
main clause has but, all we need to do is to insert a comma.
The test was 5 pages long, but we had studied for two hours
each day for a week to prepare.
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