The following sentence may need a semicolon to separate independent clauses. Select the answer option that will make the sentence correct. If the original sentence is correct, select No change.
Even in the early days of consumer marketing, brand identification was important, for example, Procter and Gamble launched Ivory soap and Crisco vegetable shortening.
Group of answer choices
No change
Replace the comma after important with a semicolon.
Replace the comma after marketing with a semicolon.
Replace the comma after important with a semicolon.
Replace the comma after important with a semicolon.
To determine if a semicolon is needed in the sentence, we need to identify the independent clauses. An independent clause is a group of words that can stand alone as a sentence. In this sentence, we have two independent clauses: "Even in the early days of consumer marketing, brand identification was important" and "Procter and Gamble launched Ivory soap and Crisco vegetable shortening."
To determine if a semicolon is needed, we need to check if the two independent clauses are closely related and if they are of equal importance. In this case, they are closely related because the second clause provides an example or evidence to support the idea expressed in the first clause. Therefore, a semicolon should be used to separate the two independent clauses.
Looking at the answer options, the correct choice would be: Replace the comma after important with a semicolon. This will make the sentence grammatically correct.
So the corrected sentence would be: Even in the early days of consumer marketing, brand identification was important; for example, Procter and Gamble launched Ivory soap and Crisco vegetable shortening.