English NMDCAT Writing Skill and Proofreading
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Choose the correctly punctuated sentence.

A. Its time to go; the meeting starts in five minutes.
B. It's time to go, the meeting starts in five minutes.
C. It's time to go; the meeting starts in five minutes.
D. Its time to go. The meeting starts in five minutes.

📝 Explanation

It's' (it is) requires an apostrophe. A semicolon is correctly used to join two independent clauses.

📖 Additional Information

  • Its time to go; the meeting starts in five minutes.
  • It's time to go, the meeting starts in five minutes.
  • It's time to go; the meeting starts in five minutes.
  • Its time to go. The meeting starts in five minutes.

It's' (it is) requires an apostrophe. A semicolon is correctly used to join two independent clauses.

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