The first time the young boy saw the large, white house, it felt more like an amusement park than a place to live. The house had a carousel that went all the way around, an enormous, colorful swing set, and a sandbox so big, it looked like it could hold a hundred children. The house even had a private ice cream parlor, complete with a giant ice cream cone fountain. He wondered what it would be like to live there.
","stem_html":"Which choice best corrects the punctuation error in the passage?
","rationale_html":"The semicolon after the phrase "a hundred children" is the only punctuation mark in this sentence that is correctly used. The semicolon in choice D correctly links the two independent clauses in the sentence. The other punctuation marks are used to separate a list of items and are not needed to separate the two independent clauses in the sentence. The semicolon is used to separate two related independent clauses in a sentence, which is exactly what we need in this sentence. This choice is the only one that uses punctuation correctly.
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