Question

Punctuate the following sentence-
The serbs and the croats have witnessed many conflicts between each other
a) The serbs and the croats have witnessed many conflicts between each other.
b) the Serbs and the Croats have witnessed many conflicts between each other.
c) The Serbs and the Croats have witnessed many conflicts between each other.
d) No Change.

Answer 1

Hint: A mark, such as a full stop, comma, or a question mark, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

Complete answer:
 There are certain rules to punctuate any given sentence, such as separate danglers with a comma, use a period instead of a comma or a hyphen, use a comma before the final ‘and’, use a comma before introducing a question, don’t use ellipses, avoid semicolons, don’t use a comma to represent vocal pauses, etc. In the given question we have to punctuate the given sentence.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer :
Option ‘a’ is The Serbs and the Croats have witnessed many conflicts between each other. This sentence is not correct as Serbs and Croats have to start with a capital letter as they represent countries.
Option ‘b’ is the Serbs and Croats have witnessed many conflicts between each other. This sentence is incorrect because it is starting with ‘the' who’s ‘t’ s not a capital letter.
Option ‘c’ is The Serbs and the Croats have witnessed many conflicts between each other. This sentence is correct because the capital letters are used where they should be. Serbs and Croats are the native people of Serbia and Croatia, so they have to be started with a capital letter.
Option ‘d' is No change. This option would be chosen if the given sentence has no punctuation errors and is completely correct, while the given options are incorrect.
As we have analyzed all the given options, we can easily figure out the correct answer. Here, the sentence where no punctuation errors is – The Serbs and Croats have witnessed many conflicts between each other. Hence, option ‘c’ is the correct answer.

Note:
While checking punctuation marks you must not only check a full stop, comma, or a question mark only, you also have to see if the capital letters are used correctly in the given sentence or not.