Question

Ead the passage underlined. There may be a mistake in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling. If you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘correct as is.’

a) Correct as is.
b) Successful baserunner of his era - no other player since World War II has more steals of home
c) Successful baserunner of his era, no other player since World War II has more steals of home
d) Successful baserunner of his era: no other player since World War II has more steals of home
e) Successful baserunner of his era; no other player since World War II has more steals of home

Answer 1

The correct punctuation for the sentence is a colon, as it introduces an explanation following an independent clause, making option d) the correct answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

When assessing a passage for errors in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling, one must carefully consider the context and the meaning the author intends to convey. In this case, the sentence 'Successful baserunner of his era...' requires a punctuation mark that sufficiently separates two related but distinct clauses.

After reviewing the available choices, option d) Successful baserunner of his era: no other player since World War II has more steals of home is the correct one, because the colon effectively introduces the list or explanation that follows the independent clause.

A comma is too weak to separate two independent clauses (option c), and a semicolon (option e), though it can separate independent clauses, is less appropriate here because what follows is an elaboration or explanation of the first clause rather than a separate but related complete thought. The absence of any punctuation, as in option b, results in a run-on sentence.