Question

Give me the keys to the house. can you do that ... I've left some things behind.
 Choose the option that best corrects the sentence.
 A. Give me the keys to the house; can you do that; I've left some things behind.
B. Give me the keys to the house - can you do that? I've left some things behind.
C. Give me the keys to the house - can you do that? - I've left some things behind.
D. NO CHANGE

Answer 1

Hint: Use the property of a parenthesis here. The three dots are ellipse. You can also write the three dots as a (-) as per the rules of ellipse. Ensure the tenses are not changed. No word is added or subtracted.

Complete answer:
As per the rules, the ellipse is used to denote that the speaker is trailing off the thoughts.
The three consecutive dots are called parentheses and can be replaced by (-).
General rules of parentheses ellipse :
You do not change the tense of the sentence.
You cannot add or subtract a word from the sentence.
You put the (-) in place of the (…) without any change in the sentence.
Keeping all the points in mind, option C is the perfect answer.
Reason is because in place of (…), (-) is used without any change in the position of the words and tense. The answer words are the same as the question and only in place of (…), (-) is used. The question mark is used to ask the question.

Additional Information:
Parentheses is used when we add some extra information to a sentence. However, a pair of dashes can replace a pair of parentheses, which is the triple dots.
The parentheses is used only if the content is less formal. We usually do not find it in the textbooks.
Hence the correct answer is option ‘C'.

Note:You need to make sure that you only add punctuations and replace the triple dots with (-). You do not add any extra words or remove any words which exist. The tenses cannot change at any point of time.