Question

Read the sentence.

While mindfulness is often considered an adult practice, it can benefit teens in three ways; lessening the stress of daily life, helping develop empathy, and aiding in concentration.
Which option revises the sentence correctly?
A-While mindfulness is often considered an adult practice, it can benefit teens in three ways lessening the stress of daily life, help develop empathy, and aiding in concentration.

B-While mindfulness is often considered an adult practice—it can benefit teens in three ways—lessen the stress of daily life, help develop empathy, and aid in concentration.

C-While mindfulness is often considered an adult practice, it can benefit teens in three ways: lessening the stress of daily life, helping develop empathy, and aiding in concentration.

D-While mindfulness is often considered an adult practice; it can benefit teens in three ways: lessening the stress of daily life, helping develop empathy, and aid in concentration.

Answer 1

C- While mindfulness is often considered an adult practice , it can benefit teens in three ways: lessening the stress of daily life, helping develop empathy, and aiding in concentration.

Answer 2

The correct answer is option D. While mindfulness is often considered an adult practice; it can benefit teens in three ways: lessening the stress of daily life, helping develop empathy, and aiding in concentration.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this example we are working with some punctuation rules.

It is important to know when to use semicolons and colons.

• Semicolons: they are stronger than a comma; we use them to separate two independent clauses or complete sentences. Let's review the example:

- While mindfulness is often considered and adult practice

- It can benefit teens in three ways

Each sentence has a subject and a verb, but when we put it together we form a compound sentence. In order to avoid comma splices we should use a semicolon between both sentences.

• Colons: We use them to introduce a list. Let's review the example:

- It can benefit teens in three ways: lessening the stress of daily life, helping develop empathy, and aiding concentration.

In this example different elements are being listed in order to widen the given information in the sentence.