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Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

The presidential China Room displays all the White House china: in fact, almost every past president is represented there.
The presidential China Room displays all the White House china, in fact; almost every past president is represented there.
The presidential China Room displays all the White House china; in fact, almost every past president is represented there.
The presidential China Room displays all the White House china, in fact, almost every past president is represented there.

User Mathmike
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Answer:

I think its two

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User Adalberto
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Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence is too long and too varied to accommodate a plain comma so that lets out B and D

The third one is subtly incorrect. A semicolon usually separates two equal kinds of sentence structure.

I like the first one using a full colon. What follows the colon explains and expands the thought before the colon. A colon's normal use is to separate the main thought from a list, but it can be used this way as well.

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