In each of the following question, four alternative sentences are given. Choose the correct one.
Correct answer: A. She always enjoyed sweets, chocolate, ice cream and toffee apples.
- A. She always enjoyed sweets, chocolate, ice cream and toffee apples.
- B. She always enjoyed: sweets, chocolate, ice cream and toffee apples.
- C. She always enjoyed sweets chocolate ice cream and toffee apples.
- D. She always enjoyed sweet's, chocolate, ice cream's and toffee apple's.
Explanation
- The comma-separated list correctly enumerates the items she enjoyed.- No colon (:) is needed because the list is a natural continuation of the sentence.- No possessive forms are needed because the items are not belonging to anyone.
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