Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

my father loved talking about history, particularly: the civil war, the cold war, and the revolutionary war.
there were several scientific processes i wanted to learn about such as, photosynthesis, diffusion, and osmosis.
the only states that marina had yet to visit were: colorado, wyoming, north dakota, and rhode island.
when studying mythology, i learned about several gods and goddesses: zeus, apollo, aphrodite, hermes, and hercules.

The correct answer is D. When studying mythology, I learned about several gods and goddesses: Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, and Hercules.

Explanation:

Punctuation refers to the use of periods (.), commas (,), colons (:), etc in texts. In the case of the sentence "When studying mythology, I learned about several gods and goddesses: Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, and Hercules" this is the only sentence from the prospects that is punctuated correctly as the uses of both comma and colon are correct.

This can be explained as in the first sentence "When studying mythology, I learned about several gods and goddesses" the comma has been used to separate the two clauses that integrate the sentence, which is considered as correct. Similarly, commas were used to separate elements of the same importance and kind in "Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, and Hercules" which is another correct used. On the other hand, the colon (:) is a punctuation mark used to introduce a list of elements after a complete sentence, this is the case of the sentence presented as a list of gods and goddesses is introduced.

its everything except for telling nonfiction and using first person

d

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