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ACT English Difficulty: Medium (30)

Digital ACT English Practice Question #1215

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The restoration committee reviewed the historic municipal archive; discovering several nineteenth-century mayoral journals that had been presumed lost in the 1922 flood. Which choice best resolves the punctuation error in the underlined portion?
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Semicolon test: Check if both sides can be standalone sentences. 'Discovering several...' cannot. Semicolon is automatically incorrect, leaving Choice B.

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A semicolon must separate two independent clauses (clauses capable of standing alone as complete sentences). Here, 'discovering several nineteenth-century mayoral journals...' is a participial phrase, not an independent clause. A comma appr...

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