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This quiz will test your knowledge on the lecture “Semicolon Misusage” and reinforce the material in the lecture. This exercise will help you internalize the material through the power of repetition and application, so you can remember it and apply it in your writing.

Semicolon Usage

You can use the text, Word, or PDF versions of this exercise. This quiz will test your knowledge on the lecture “Semicolon Usage” and reinforce the material in the lecture. This exercise will help you internalize the material through the power of repetition and application, so you can remember it and apply it in your writing.

Fix the following sentences so the semicolon usage is correct. While there may be more than one way to fix the grammar in these sentences, use semicolons in each correction to fix these sentences based on the tutorial. Then, check your answers against the answers in the next lecture/document. 

1.     Maria had always dreamed of going to China, when she got a chance to study abroad there for a year, she jumped at it. 

2.     Lily played video games and ate Cheetos all day, the next day she had a stomach ache as a result of her unhealthy choices.

3.     The choices of food and beverage at the conference included pizza, spaghetti, or sandwiches, salad, apples, or carrots, and tea, water, or coffee. 

4.     If you like going to the fair, we can go on Thursday, it will be fun to walk through the haunted house and ride the Ferris wheel. 

5.     Isaac often travels for his job to Montreal, Canada, Athens, Greece, New Delhi, India, and Beijing, China.