English-2
Grade-8
Easy

Question

Rewrite the following sentence using appropriate colons.
There is only one thing we can do now fight back.

  1. There is only one thing we can do now fight: back.
  2. There is only one thing we can do now: fight back.
  3. There is only one thing: we can do now fight back.
  4. None of the above

hintHint:

A colon is used to give emphasis, present dialogue, introduce lists or text, and clarify composition titles

The correct answer is: There is only one thing we can do now: fight back.


    Option 2 is correct.
    A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted sentence. Here it precedes an explanation.

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