Read the passage and examine the text in bold. Then, answer the question. Grandmother described our weather perfectly and poetically: "Here are the long heavy winds and breathless calms on the tilted mesas where dust devils dance, whirling up into a wide, pale sky. Here you have no rain when all the earth cries for it. This is a land of lost rivers, with little in it to love, yet, it is a land that once visited must be come back to inevitably." If it were not so, there would be no one to tell of its harshness, beauty, and power. Does the bolded portion contain an error?

The correct answer is: No correction needed.

Explanation:

This is the full question:

Read the passage and examine the text in bold. then, answer the question.

grandmother described our weather perfectly and poetically: "here are the long heavy winds and breathless calms on the tilted mesas where dust devils dance, whirling up into a wide, pale sky. here you have no rain when all the earth cries for it. this is a land of lost rivers, with little in it to love, yet, it is a land that once visited must be come back to inevitably." if it were not so, there would be no one to tell of its harshness, beauty, and power.

does the bolded portion contain an error? choose the correction if one is needed.

poetically; "here are

poetically, "here are

poetically "here are

no correction needed

The bolded part in the text is: "poetically: "here are"

In the text above, the colon was used to introduce the quoted words. The author was trying to quote his grandmother's words.

It requires no correction because in English, to quote a person's words, quotation marks must be used. Which was fulfilled in the text.

Also, to introduce the quote, a colon was used, which is the correct way of preceding a quote. Therefore, the bolded words are correct and need no explanation.