Question

Which sentence is punctuated correctly? John played many different types of sports baseball, soccer, football, and tennis. John played many different types of sports: baseball, soccer, football, and tennis. John played many different types of sports, baseball, soccer, football, and tennis. John played many different types of sports; baseball, soccer, football, and tennis.

Answer 1

John played many different types of sports: baseball, soccer, football, and tennis.

Step-by-step explanation:

This sentence correctly opens a list of items with a colon ( : ), located after the word sports. The sentence then proceeds to show all of the items in the list, each one correctly separated by commas, even the last one in spite of the presence of the conjunction and (a comma is still requiered before this conjunction).

Answer 2

The correct answer would be option B, John played many different types of sports: baseball, soccer, football, and tennis.

Step-by-step explanation:

There are many punctuation in grammar. The correct option has Colon and commas in it. Colon is the type of punctuation that are used in the sentence which shows that something is following, like some quotation, example or the list of something. In this question, the sentence is used in a way that is followed by a list of games. 'John played many different types of sports', this is one part of the sentence, after which a colon is used to write a list of the games which he used to play. so the option B is the correct form of sentence punctuation.