Question

I am moving to another city for several reasons, better job opportunities, a diversity of cultural events and good schools for the children.
Choose the option that best corrects the underlined word.

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

Answer 1

The correct option is B reasons:

The sentence gives a list of benefits of moving to another city.

A punctuation is required to separate the list of benefits from the introductory clause. However, a comma is used in a list to separate a series of items and not before that. Therefore, using a comma in the given sentence is incorrect.

Option A - A semi colon (;) is used between two independent clauses when the coordinating conjunction is omitted.

Option B - A colon (:) is specifically used to introduce a list of items. Therefore, the correct answer must be Option B.