Question

Which of these sentences has

incorrect punctuation?
I left the meeting feeling utterly
hopeless; it appeared that
nobody had any answers.
I left; the meeting feeling utterly
hopeless it appeared that
nobody had any answers.
Nobody had any answers; I left
the meeting feeling utterly
hopeless.
I left the meeting feeling utterly
hopeless as nobody seemed to
have any answers.

Answer 1

The second sentence "I left; the meeting feeling utterly hopeless it appeared that nobody had any answers." has incorrect punctuation, as the semicolon should be placed after "left" and before "the meeting" or "feeling" in order to correctly separate the independent clauses.

It should be written as "I left; the meeting feeling utterly hopeless. It appeared that nobody had any answers."