Question

Herlise had hoped to avoid meeting Tristan at school: unfortunately, he shared her geometry, English, and science classes.

What change, if any, should be made to the punctuation in this sentence?
A.
No change is necessary.
B.
Change the colon to a semicolon.
C.
Change the period to an exclamation point.
D.
Remove the comma after unfortunately

Answer 1

@ThisGirlPretty

Answer 2

What do you think?

Answer 3

a?

Answer 4

':' is usually used to list.
Is this a list?

Answer 5

A colon has two uses. The popular one is it's use for listing things after stating a category. The second, and less popular use, is for adding information after a complete sentence.

Answer 6

yes?

Answer 7

No kyle e.e

Answer 8

The key is determining if this-
Herlise had hoped to avoid meeting Tristan at school
is a complete sentence.

Answer 9

i suck

Answer 10

It correctly conveys an idea that grammatically makes sense. The words after the colon are just meant to add information.