Question

Which sentence is written correctly? Le’s, the new restaurant downtown, serves many delicious Vietnamese specialties like: pho bo and dau phu. My favorite dishes are the: nem nuong, tom ca ri, and crispy egg noodles. Mr. Le always includes four seafood items on his menu: shrimp, catfish, scallops, and squid. Vegetarian dishes at Le’s cucumber salad, pickled carrots, noodle soup, and fried tofu.

Answer 1

The sentence that is written correctly: Mr. Le always includes four seafood items on his menu: shrimp, catfish, scallops, and squid. Sentence could be simple (one independent clause), compound (two independent clause with coordinating conjunction), complex (a subordinate & independent clause) and compound-complex sentences (subordinate & two independent clause).

Answer 2

Mr. Le always includes four seafood items on his menu: shrimp, catfish, scallops, and squid.

The colon should be used after a complete sentence. This sentence is written correctly because "Mr. Le always includes four seafood items on his menu" is a complete sentence by itself. The colon that follows indicates that the list clarifies which seafood items are included. The other option are not correct because the information before the colon can not be complete sentences by themselves.