Question

Found throughout North America on cave walls, in natural rock shelters along

streams or rivers, and on ledges and cliff faces, early Native American rock art
is unlike the early writing of many other peoples. The pictures and symbols are
not meant to be translated into specific words but, instead, are usually
expressive of spiritual and abstract ideas and experiences because often the
artists were trying to express a vision quest or some other transcendent
experience through this art form. This rock art can be divided into two
pictographs, which were drawings or paintings on rock, and
petroglyphs, which were icons or symbols chiseled into rock. Of the two,
petroglyphs are more enduring.
3. Which choice completes the text so that it
conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
OA. categories:
OB. categories;
OC. categories.
D. categories'

Answer 1

The correct answer is 'categories:' as it properly introduces a list of items in the given context, following the conventions of Standard English.

Step-by-step explanation:

The choice that completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English is 'categories:' (Option A). This punctuation is appropriate because it introduces a list of two items that are explained further in the text: pictographs and petroglyphs. The colon serves as a marker that the reader can anticipate a clarification or enumeration to follow.