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Which sentence uses the correct punctuation? Please Answer

The books I want to check out from the library are: Call of the Wild, The Giver, and The Watsons Go to Birmingham.


The books I want to check out from the library are, Call of the Wild, The Giver, and The Watsons Go to Birmingham.


The books I want to check out from the library are as follows: Call of the Wild, The Giver, and The Watsons Go to Birmingham.


The books I want to check out from the library are as follows, Call of the Wild, The Giver, and The Watsons Go to Birmingham.


The books I want to check out from the library are as follows; Call of the Wild, The Giver, and The Watsons Go to Birmingham.

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Answer:

The third one

Step-by-step explanation:

The colon is used to separate independent clauses, usually as a way to lead the first sentence into the second one. The first one's first sentence is not an independent clause, so a colon doesn't work. The last one doesn't work either, as a semicolon is not typically used to introduce anything. The rest use commas, which aren't used to introduce anything either.

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