Question
Which sentences are punctuated correctly? Check all that apply.
A: The circus featured four clowns, three acrobats, and a tightrope walker.
B: We will bring a flashlight, sleeping bags and a tent on the camping trip.
C: The recipe calls for two eggs; a cup of flour; salt and baking soda.
D: I wrote poems about my best friends, the queen of England and the tooth fairy.
E: The flags are blue and white; red, white, and blue; and red, white, and green.
A: The circus featured four clowns, three acrobats, and a tightrope walker.
B: We will bring a flashlight, sleeping bags and a tent on the camping trip.
C: The recipe calls for two eggs; a cup of flour; salt and baking soda.
D: I wrote poems about my best friends, the queen of England and the tooth fairy.
E: The flags are blue and white; red, white, and blue; and red, white, and green.
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The sentences that are punctuated correctly are:
A: The circus featured four clowns, three acrobats, and a tightrope walker.
B: We will bring a flashlight, sleeping bags and a tent on the camping trip.
D: I wrote poems about my best friends, the queen of England and the tooth fairy.
E: The flags are blue and white; red, white, and blue; and red, white, and green.
Sentence C is not punctuated correctly; it should use commas instead of semicolons to separate the items in the series. A corrected version would be: "The recipe calls for two eggs, a cup of flour, salt, and baking soda."
A: The circus featured four clowns, three acrobats, and a tightrope walker.
B: We will bring a flashlight, sleeping bags and a tent on the camping trip.
D: I wrote poems about my best friends, the queen of England and the tooth fairy.
E: The flags are blue and white; red, white, and blue; and red, white, and green.
Sentence C is not punctuated correctly; it should use commas instead of semicolons to separate the items in the series. A corrected version would be: "The recipe calls for two eggs, a cup of flour, salt, and baking soda."