Which sentence is punctuated correctly? a) instead of complaining, mark covington decided to spend his time: working to save his neighborhood. b) like many other detroit natives, mark covington experienced: job loss as a result of the economic downturn. c) mark covington could think of one way to rebuild his neighborhood: establish a community center and garden: where the vacant lot used to be. need asap

C) Mark Covington could think of one way to rebuild his neighborhood: establish a community center and garden where the vacant lot used to be.

Explanation: a colon is a punctuation mark that is used to mark a major division in a sentence, to indicate that what follows is an elaboration, summation, implication, or explanation of what precedes. From the given options, the sentence that uses the colon correctly, is the corresponding to option C, because it is introducing further information about how Mark Covington wanted to rebuild his neighborhood.

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)