Question

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Which sentence is punctuated correctly?


Barbara Bush focused much of her energy: on a cause near to her heart, literacy.

Barbara Bush focused much of her energy on a cause: near to her heart literacy.

Barbara Bush focused much of her energy on a cause near to her heart, literacy.

Barbara Bush focused much of her energy on a cause near to her heart: literacy.

Answer 1

Answer: Barbara Bush focused much of her energy on a cause near to her heart: literacy.

Explanation: In the first two options, the colon is being misused because it is fragmenting essential elements of a same clause (direct object "much of her energy" from complement "on a cause..." / prepositional phrase "on a cause" from prepositional phrase "near to her heart" modifying it.) In the third option, the comma should not be used to introduce the one-item list "literacy."

Answer 2

Answer:

Barbara Bush focused much of her energy on a cause near to her heart: literacy.

Explanation:

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