"Wondering what to do to avoid punishment and humiliation, now that she was fully alert; Judy took the eggs out of the carton, broke them into the skillet, stirred them with a fork, and cried." This construction:

includes a comma splice.

includes a lack of agreement between subject and predicate.

*** includes an inappropriate use of a semicolon.

includes an inappropriate combination of modifier and noun.

is a sentence fragment.

Correct.

The correct answer is: includes an inappropriate use of a semicolon.

In the sentence, "Wondering what to do to avoid punishment and humiliation, now that she was fully alert; Judy took the eggs out of the carton, broke them into the skillet, stirred them with a fork, and cried," the semicolon is used inappropriately.

A semicolon should be used to connect two closely related independent clauses when a coordinating conjunction (such as "and" or "but") is not present. In this case, the semicolon is used after the introductory phrase "Wondering what to do to avoid punishment and humiliation, now that she was fully alert," which is not an independent clause. Therefore, the use of a semicolon is incorrect.

To correct the sentence, the inappropriate semicolon can be replaced with a comma: "Wondering what to do to avoid punishment and humiliation, now that she was fully alert, Judy took the eggs out of the carton, broke them into the skillet, stirred them with a fork, and cried."