Question

The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea. It was a long and perilous voyage. Which correctly uses a semicolon to link these two sentences? A) The fleet with the wedding; on board sailed southward on the China Sea, was a long and perilous voyage. B) The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea: It was a long and perilous voyage. C) The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea; it was a long and perilous voyage. D) The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea however; it was a long and perilous voyage.

Answer 1

C) The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea; it was a long and perilous voyage.

Step-by-step explanation:

A semicolon is used to link two independent clauses that are related in meaning and it gives the two ideas equal importance when used together.

The correct answer is Option C because it was effectively used to replace the coordinating conjunction "and" in the sentence, thereby linking them up together.