Question

Select the sentence that has the correct semicolon and/or colon punctuation. Question 1 options: Along my road trip I visited; Rochester, Minnesota, Des Moines, Iowa, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Jefferson City, Missouri. Along my road trip I visited Rochester, Minnesota; Des Moines, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Jefferson City, Missouri. Along my road trip I visited Rochester, Minnesota, Des Moines, Iowa, Lincoln, Nebraska; and Jefferson City, Missouri. Along my road trip I visited Rochester; Minnesota; Des Moines; Iowa; Lincoln; Nebraska; and Jefferson City; Missouri.

Answer 1

The correct sentence using semicolons to separate items in a list is 'Along my road trip I visited Rochester, Minnesota; Des Moines, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Jefferson City, Missouri.'

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence that has the correct semicolon and/or colon punctuation is: 'Along my road trip I visited Rochester, Minnesota; Des Moines, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Jefferson City, Missouri.' In this sentence, semicolons are properly used to separate items in a list when those items contain commas. This follows the punctuation rule that semicolons can be used to separate items in a complex list, where each item comprises elements further separated by commas. The semicolons here show the distinct breaks between the city and state pairs, which makes the list clear and easily readable.

Answer 2

Thye correct answer is the following: Along my road trip I visited Rochester, Minnesota; Des Moines, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Jefferson City, Missouri.

Semicolons are used within a sentence when it presents commas for smaller separations of nouns and you need a bigger separations to be represented. In this case, the speaker is listing the cities they visited and what states those cities belong to. Each city is correctly separated from its state by means of a comma, and each noun phrase (city plus state) is therefore separated from eachother by a semicolon.