Project Mercury was the first American human spaceflight ------- ran from 1958 through 1963, and launched its first astronaut, Alan Shepard, on a suborbital flight in 1958. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?program, iteliminateprogram iteliminateprogram and iteliminateprogram; it
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Project Mercury was the first American human spaceflight ------- ran from 1958 through 1963, and launched its first astronaut, Alan Shepard, on a suborbital flight in 1958. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?program, iteliminateprogram iteliminateprogram and iteliminateprogram; it
Solution
The correct choice is "program; it". This choice correctly uses a semicolon to connect two independent clauses. The sentence could be rewritten as two separate sentences: "Project Mercury was the first American human spaceflight program. It ran from 1958 through 1963, and launched its first astronaut, Alan Shepard, on a suborbital flight in 1958." The semicolon is a way to connect these two related thoughts in a single sentence.
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