Choose the correctly punctuated sentence.

  1. It rained heavily: and the match was cancelled.
  2. It rained heavily the match was cancelled.
  3. It rained heavily, the match was cancelled.
  4. It rained heavily; the match was cancelled.
Answer

D) It rained heavily; the match was cancelled.

Two complete sentences can be joined by a semicolon (a comma alone is a comma splice). Sentence Correction & Error Spotting · Punctuation & capitalisation

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