b. Have you seen Steven Spielberg's movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"?
c. In Popular Mechanics magazine, I read an article about ten inventions that changed the world.
d. Did you see the article The Ten Best Books of Summer in yesterday's Miami Herald?
D. Both World War I and World War II
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B)Skiing is fun; but snowboarding is better.
C)My sister and I love to cook; we spend hours cooking together.
D)My aunt went shopping; went to the mall.
Answer:
C
Explanation:
Two clauses can be joined with a semicolon when they are both independent (they both have their subject and predicate and can stand on their own as a sentence). In option A, "In the morning" is just a phrase without no subject or verb whatsoever. In option D, the fragment after the semicolon lacks a subject, therefore it is not a clause. In option B, "Skiing is fun" and "snowboarding is better" are both independent clauses, but the semicolon cannot be combined with coordinating conjunctions like "but."
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