Question

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?


A.
Abby collected rocks, sticks, and leaves on the hike but Jim, I think, picked up only stones.


B.
Abby collected rocks, sticks, and leaves on the hike; but Jim, I think, picked up only stones.


C.
Abby collected rocks; sticks; and leaves on the hike, but Jim, I think, picked up only stones.


D.
Abby collected rocks, sticks, and leaves on the hike, but Jim; I think; picked up only stones.

Answer 1

A, because both clauses about Abby and Jim concentrate upon one topic/idea: picking certain things up. So we can't have ";" because this implies two ideas. and the only one purely of commas is A.

Answer 2

Are we good on this?

Answer 3

Absolutely. You are correct.

Answer 4

A i suppose