Semicolons

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Select the underlined word or phrase that needs to be changed to make the sentence correct. Some sentences contain no error at all.

According to the survey; business owners who employed more than one hundred workers were twice as likely to oppose unionization as were owners of smaller businesses. No error

survey;

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who

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were twice as likely

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No error

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Explanation

The error here occurs in the punctuation of the dependent introductory clause. Since this opening clause is introductory in nature, it is considered a dependent clause. Semicolons can never punctuate dependent clauses, they must follow independent clauses. The rest of the sentence was correct as written.

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