Question

Which two parts of the passage are punctuated correctly? Here are some more questions I would like to ask Representative Weaver, If the driving age is raised to 21, what will happen to all the afternoon jobs, the afternoon sports, and the afternoon programs that require some sort of transportation? What will happen to America’s economy (and its spirit) when high schoolers can no longer work the fast-food jobs and restaurant hostess positions? “A teenager behind the wheel is the symbol of American youth,” writes author Peter Chacha: What will happen to this symbol if Representative Weaver’s plan is approved? Weaver also claims that “a majority of seat belt violations” are the fault of the under-21 crowd. But let me ask you this: Do people under the age of 21 really wear their seat belts less often than older people, or are they just caught more often? That is, we know the police have their eye on the teenagers, but are they looking at the adults as well? But I can hear it now: “If teenagers are all so safe, why do they have such high accident rates?” Here’s a possible answer. inexperience. Like anybody who is inexperienced, the teenage driver must suffer through a legitimate period of self-doubt and skills acquisition. Chances are, if the driving age were moved to 21, we would see 21- to 24-year-olds causing the largest percentage of safety problems—not because of a maturity problem, mind you, but just because they would be inexperienced at driving.

Answer 1

The correctly punctuated parts in the passage are the sentence regarding America's economy and spirit in parentheses and the one with a colon introducing two related questions regarding seat belt usage among different age groups.

Step-by-step explanation:

In assessing the punctuated sections of the passage, two parts are punctuated correctly. The sentence 'What will happen to America’s economy (and its spirit) when high schoolers can no longer work the fast-food jobs and restaurant hostess positions?' uses parentheses correctly to add an incidental remark. Additionally, the question 'But let me ask you this: Do people under the age of 21 really wear their seat belts less often than older people, or are they just caught more often?' is correctly punctuated with a colon introducing a list of related items in the form of two related questions.

Answer 2

The two parts of the passage that are punctuated correctly are:

"What will happen to America’s economy (and its spirit) when high schoolers can no longer work the fast-food jobs and restaurant hostess positions?"

"Like anybody who is inexperienced, the teenage driver must suffer through a legitimate period of self-doubt and skills acquisition."