Question

On the flight, the girls took turns looking out of the window, breathlessly commenting on the sights. As the plane approached the city, the buildings became visible ______ the runway of the airport came into sight, and then they touched down with a thump.

Fill in the blank with the correct punctuation and wording.
A) ; presently,
B) ; presently;
C) , presently,
D) , presently;

Answer 1

Hi,

Your answer is going to be A, "; presently,"

On the flight, the girls took turns looking out of the window, breathlessly commenting on the sights. As the plane approached the city, the buildings became visible; presently, the runway of the airport came into sight, and then they touched down with a thump.

~Elisabeth

Answer 2

The correct answer is option A) ; presently,

Step-by-step explanation:

According to punctuation rules, we use semicolon when joining two independant sentences but at the same time those sentences have a logical and close connection.

Conjunctive adverbs (in this case "presently") are used to connect independant clauses and they come after a semicolon and before a comma.