Which should be connected with a semi-colon?
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Mumbai is a beautiful city ______ wide streets and sunshine.
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Delhi is a lovely city ______ roti is one of my favourite foods.
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I would love to go to Karnataka ______ Bangalore is a lovely city.
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I would love to go to Tamilnadu ______ I love temples.
To correctly answer this question, the user needs to understand the usage of semi-colons in sentences. A semi-colon is used to separate two independent clauses that are closely related in meaning. An independent clause is a group of words that can stand alone as a sentence.
Now, let's go through each option and determine which one requires a semi-colon.
A. Mumbai is a beautiful city with wide streets and sunshine.
This sentence does not require a semi-colon because "with wide streets and sunshine" is a prepositional phrase that is not an independent clause.
B. Delhi is a lovely city and roti is one of my favorite foods.
This sentence does not require a semi-colon because "and roti is one of my favorite foods" is a coordinating conjunction that connects two independent clauses.
C. I would love to go to Karnataka because Bangalore is a lovely city.
This sentence does not require a semi-colon because "because Bangalore is a lovely city" is a dependent clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence.
D. I would love to go to Tamilnadu ; I love temples.
This sentence requires a semi-colon because "I love temples" is an independent clause that is closely related in meaning to the first clause.
Therefore, the correct answer is:
The Answer is: D
A semicolon correctly joins two independent (complete) clauses that are closely related in meaning, without a coordinating conjunction. 'I would love to go to Karnataka; Bangalore is a lovely city' and 'I would love to go to Tamilnadu; I love temples' both pair two complete sentences where the second explains/relates to the first — appropriate semicolon use. The Mumbai sentence needs a preposition like 'with' (not two independent clauses), and the Delhi sentence pairs two independent clauses that are only loosely related, better joined with 'and' or left as separate sentences rather than a semicolon implying a tight logical link.