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Type: Multiple-Choice
Category: Colons and Semicolons
Level: Grade 9
Standards: CCRA.L.2, L.9-10.2, L.9-10.2a
Score: 1
Tags: ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.2.A
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Grade 9 Colons and Semicolons CCSS: CCRA.L.2, L.9-10.2, L.9-10.2a

"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere." - Mansfield Park

How does the author use semicolons in the passage above?
  1. To separate two sentences where a conjunction has been left out
  2. To separate units in a series
  3. To separate two sentences joined by a coordinating conjunction
  4. Both a and c