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.
Question 2 (8.33 points)
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The second underlined portion:
Question 2 options:
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high school curriculum; they also have
high school curriculum: and they also have
high school curriculum; but they also have
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The best option for the second underlined portion is:
high school curriculum; they also have
This option correctly uses a semicolon to separate two independent clauses that are closely related. The original sentence uses a colon, which is not appropriate in this context.
