To serve local families during the Great Depression, innovative New York City librarian Pura Belpré offered storytelling in both English and Spanish, an uncommon ______blank celebrated el Día de los Tres Reyes Magos, an important community holiday; and put on puppet shows dramatizing Puerto Rican folktales.
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Choice A is incorrect because it fails to use appropriate punctuation to separate the first item and the second item in the complex series. Furthermore, a comma isn’t needed between the noun \"practice\" and the prepositional phrase \"at the time\" because the prepositional phrase is essential to the full meaning of the phrase \"an uncommon practice at the time.\" Choice C is incorrect because a comma after \"time\" doesn’t match the semicolon used later to separate the second (\"celebrated...holiday\") and third (\"and...folktales\") items in the series. Furthermore, a comma isn’t needed between the noun \"practice\" and the prepositional phrase \"at the time\" because the prepositional phrase is essential to the full meaning of the phrase \"an uncommon practice at the time.\" Choice D is incorrect because a comma after \"time\" doesn’t match the semicolon used later to separate the second (\"celebrated...holiday\") and third (\"and...folktales\") items in the series.
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