Which sentences are punctuated correctly?

1.Some workers train dogs to become service dogs for people who need assistance others workers accompany the mobile spay and neuter project for inner-city pet owners.
2.That's the other thing I learned: being active is just as important as eating better foods.
3.Over the years, many of us have read the words of Henry B. Adams: “A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops."
4.You know the feeling. it's minutes until the school bus comes, but you just rolled out of bed, threw on some clothes, barely brushed your teeth, and now you’re racing out the door to catch the bus.

Sentence 2: One of the uses of the colon is to introduce an item or a series of items. These items, after the colon, are written with lower case. "Thats the other thing I leaned: being active..."

Sentence 3. If a quotation contains two or more sentences, we use a colon. The two independent clauses in the quotation are connected by a semicolon.

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emilyadalex emilyadalex · Answer 2 · 2019-11-03T22:26:34+01:00

Answer:

2. That's the other thing I learned: being active is just as important as eating better foods.

3. Over the years, many of us have read the words of Henry B. Adams: “A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops.”

Explanation:

Colons can introduce an item or a series of items when it is preceded by a complete thought like in option 2, where the semicolon introduces an idea and is preceded by “That's the other thing I learned,” which is a clause expressing a complete thought.

Colons are also used to introduce quotations, such as in option 3, where it introduces the quote “A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops.”

The other punctuation found in option 3 are also correctly placed: commas are to be placed after Introductory Phrases like “Over the years,” quotation marks are used to enclose quotes like “A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops;” semicolons link two independent clauses closely related but that are not linked with a conjunction, such as it links the two clauses within the quote and lastly, the period is also correctly placed because when a quotation ends a sentence, the period is placed before the final quotation mark.