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This summer, we are going on a road trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
This summer, we are going on a road trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
This summer, we are going on a road trip to the cities of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Rehoboth Beach.
This summer, we are going on a road trip to the cities of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Rehoboth Beach.
On our summer road trip, we will travel by car, train, and bus to three different states.
On our summer road trip, we will travel by car, train, and bus to three different states.
On our summer road trip, we will travel to Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware.
On our summer road trip, we will travel to Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware.
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The sentence that requires semicolons instead of commas is:
"This summer, we are going on a road trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware."
This is because the sentence includes items in a list that contain commas (the city and state pairs), and semicolons should be used to clearly separate those items.
Yes, I am sure. The sentence "This summer, we are going on a road trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware." contains lists of cities paired with their respective states, which makes it a compound complex list. To avoid confusion and ensure clarity, semicolons should be used instead of commas to separate the city/state pairs.
Therefore, it should read:
"This summer, we are going on a road trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware."
Using semicolons helps make the structure of the sentence clearer.
