But to continue my story. The Angel was dead. What then remained? You may say that what remained was a simple and common object—
a young woman in a bedroom with an inkpot. In other words, now that she had rid herself of falsehood, that young woman had only to be herself. Ah, but what is ‘herself’? I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. I do not believe that you know. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill. That indeed is one of the reasons why I have come here out of respect for you, who are in process of showing us by your experiments what a woman is, who are in process Of providing us, by your failures and successes, with that extremely important piece of information. -"Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf Read the passage. Then choose the answer choice which correctly uses a semi-colon to punctuate the italicized sentences. A) The Angel was dead; What then remained? B) The Angel was dead; what then remained? C) The Angel was dead so; what then remained? Eliminate D) The Angel was dead; and what then remained?
This punctuation mark is known as semicolon. A semicolon is used to separate major sentence elements. The most common way of employing this mark is by using it to separate two closely related independent clauses. When using it in this way, it is important to avoid using a conjunction between the sentences.
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