Question

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

A.
Have you read "The Fly;" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Sound of Thunder;" by Ray Bradbury, or "Big Two-Hearted River;" by Ernest Hemingway?

B.
Famous Renaissance painters include Michelangelo, an Italian; Hieronymus Bosch, from the Netherlands; and Jan Van Eyck, from Belgium.

C.
My favorite United States capital cities include Salem; Sacramento; and Phoenix.

D.
The poems my cousin likes best are "If," by Rudyard Kipling; "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost, and "Invictus;" by William Ernest Henley.

Answer 1

The sentence that is punctuated correctly is option B. Famous Renaissance painters include Michelangelo, an Italian; Hieronymus Bosch, from the Netherlands; and Jan Van Eyck, from Belgium. The rule applied here is the proper use of semicolons when commas are also used within the series.