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Response and Rationale for Writing Subtest Sample Question #65

Answer: The newspaper account credited the politicians; behind the triumph was the work of the strategists.

 

Rationale: A semicolon is used to separate main clauses of a sentence that are not joined by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, etc.).

 

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