Question

Read the sentence. She never found the shipwreck in fact, she had no interest in diving. Which revision corrects the punctuation error in the sentence? Insert a semicolon before in fact. Insert a semicolon before the shipwreck. Replace the comma after in fact with a semicolon.

Answer 1

The answer is insert a semicolon before "in fact".

Answer 2

Insert a semicolon before in fact

Step-by-step explanation:

"She never found the shipwreck in fact, she had no interest in diving."

In the above sentence, there are two independent clauses but are related. Normally, the best way to grammatically rewrite the sentence will be to use a comma right after 'shipwreck'. But, as that is out of the option, the revised sentence will be best rewritten by putting a semicolon before 'in fact'. Also, the semi colon can also be used to introduce a new sentence that is still related to the previous sentence.

So, the new sentence will become

She never found the shipwreck; in fact, she had no interest in diving.