Question

Choose the sentence that is correctly punctuated.

He lived in the seventeenth-century.
O He had always been interested in tasting deep-fried snack
O He had always been interested in tasting deepfried items
He had always been interested in tasting deep fried items

Answer 1

The correctly punctuated sentence is 'He had always been interested in tasting deep fried items.'

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence that is correctly punctuated is: He had always been interested in tasting deep fried items.

When listing a time period, such as the seventeenth century, it should be written with a hyphen: seventeenth-century.

In the second sentence, 'deep fried snack' should be written as 'deep-fried snack' because it is a compound adjective modifying the noun 'snack'.

Similarly, in the third sentence, 'deepfried items' should be written as 'deep-fried items' for the same reason.

1. He lived in the seventeenth-century.
2. He had always been interested in tasting deep-fried snack.
3. He had always been interested in tasting deepfried items.

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