Question

2 points

What change, if any, should be made to this sentence? *
This afternoon event includes visits to the following locations: The Museum of Modern Art,
Manhattan; the Museum of the Moving Image, Queens; and the Carriage, Stony Brook.
Make no change.
Replace the semicolons with commas.
Replace the commas with semicolons.
Remove all the commas.
In a compound sentence, a semicolon can take the place of a comma and 2 points

Answer 1

MAKE NO CHANGE

Step-by-step explanation:

There is nothing wrong with the punctuation of the sentence we are analyzing here. First, let's take a look at the colon. When we need to introduce a long list of items, a colon should be used right before the list begins. That is exactly what we have here. The speaker placed a colon before listing the locations to be visited.

Now, we can usually separate the items in a list with commas. However, in this case, not only do we have long names for each location, but we also have the "location of the location". That is, a certain museum is located in a certain city, and to separate the name of the museum from the name of the city, we must use a comma already. For that reason, when we name another location, a different one, we should use a semicolon instead of a comma.