Question

Choose the option which best corrects the underlined part.

The colors of the rainbow are - violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.

• A. are:
• B. are;
• C. are
• D. NO CHANGE

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

are

Option C is the correct answer because no punctuation mark is required to be used after 'are'.

Option A is incorrect because colons (:) make the statement: note what follows. Whatever information that follows the colon must, in some way, explain, prove, or describe whatever came before it.

Option B is incorrect because a semicolon (;) is used to join two related main clauses and sentence in question doesn't have two main clauses.

Option D is incorrect because the question has a hyphen which is most commonly used to pair compound words.