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10th-Grade
Easy

Question

According to the 2008 New Yorker article "Prophet Motive," Kahlil Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, surprisingly: he relied on his mother, sisters, and older women to pay his bills.

  1. NO CHANGE
  2. time; surprisingly,
  3. time, surprisingly,
  4. time: surprisingly,

The correct answer is: time; surprisingly,

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