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Which answer is correctly punctuated?

On our way to the beach, we had to stop and buy sunscreen.
On our way to the beach we had to stop and buy sunscreen.
On our way to the beach we, had to stop and buy sunscreen.
On our way, to the beach, we had to stop and buy sunscreen.

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The sentence that is correctly punctuated is "On our way to the beach, we had to stop and buy sunscreen." Option A is correct.

Punctuation is utilized to create sense, clarity and stress in sentences. The most common punctuation marks in English are: capital letters and full stops, question marks, commas, colons and semi-colons, exclamation marks and quotation marks.

Punctuation consists of both rules and conventions.

For instance, we use commas to separate a list of similar words or phrases,

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