The following sentence may need a semicolon to separate independent clauses. Select the answer option that will make the sentence correct. If the original sentence is correct, select No change.

Question

Even in the early days of consumer marketing, brand identification was important, for example, Procter and Gamble launched Ivory soap and Crisco vegetable shortening.
Group of answer choices

No change

Replace the comma after important with a semicolon.

Replace the comma after marketing with a semicolon.

Answer 1

Replace the comma after important with a semicolon.