Question

Change the underlined part of the given line, if necessary.

Over time, I've gotten to know several of my co-working [32] colleagues: another website developer, a graphic designer, a freelance writer, and several mobile app coders.

• A. No change
• B. colleagues;
• C. colleagues,
• D. colleagues

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

No change

The punctuation mark colon ( : ) is used to denote that the part following it is related to the part before it. Here, the part following it tells something about colleagues, i.e. who they were. Here, they were website developer, a graphic designer, a freelance writer, and several mobile app coders. So, colon is the correct punctuation mark. Semi-colon is not right, because two closely related independent clauses are not separated. So, option B is incorrect.

Comma is used to denote a pause or separation among words which are related. Here, comma is not the right as we want to tell who are colleagues and not add colleagues to the list. So, option C is incorrect.

Without punctuation, there is a discontinuity in the sentence. So, option D is incorrect.

Thus, option A is correct.