Read this paragraph and select the answer that best meets conventional English standards for each underlined section below.
You can go to military high schools in Chicago—schools that emphasize the army, navy, air force, or marines. They have the standard high school curriculum: they also have a lot of work on discipline and planning. Those are important to someone in the army. We even have a school that is an air force school. You take the usual subjects there: math, English, science, and social studies. But, you also learn about flying.
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The best option for the first underlined portion is:
schools in Chicago; schools that
This choice correctly uses a semicolon to connect two closely related independent clauses. The other options either misuse punctuation or do not effectively convey the connection between the two ideas.
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