Question

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

A.
The dates of the meetings are: June 1-7; July 4-10; and August 21-27.

B.
Jamie has studied these languages: French; Latin; Urdu; and Portuguese.

C.
Dutchess County; New York, Windham County; Connecticut, and Louisa County; Virginia are all rural.

D.
On her Mediterranean cruise, Mamie visited Barcelona, Spain; Nice, France; and Pisa, Italy.

Answer 1

The sentence that uses the correct punctuation is D. On her Mediterranean cruise, Mamie visited Barcelona, Spain; Nice, France; and Pisa, Italy. One of the rules in using the semicolon (;) is to separate a group of series containing when one or more the group has commas.