Question 5 multiple choice worth 20 points)
(04.10 mc)
the following answer choices contain a paragraph from a john muir article. read each answer choice and select the one that uses semicolons correctly.
а)two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten: all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the
paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried; however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and tom,
whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been tom and blurred by the same storms that wasted
the castaway book
в)two years ago; when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the
paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried; however many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn,
whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted
the castaway book
с)two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the
paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and tom,
whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been tom and blurred by the same storms that wasted
the castaway book
d)two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the
paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and tom,
whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted
the castaway book