Punctuation Matters

Punctuation Matters

by Kleandra Perkola -
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I cannot decide if I want my room to be green, brown, and purple green, black, and brown or green, brown, and dark red.

The correct written version of the sentence:

I can't decide if I want my room to be green, brown, and purple; green, black, and brown; or green, brown, and dark red.

The sentence was hard to read because it didn’t separate the different color choices clearly. The corrected version uses semicolons to separate each set of colors, so it's easier to understand.