The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea. It was a long and perilous voyage. Which correctly uses a semicolon to link these two sentences? A)The fleet with the wedding; on board sailed southward on the China Sea, was a long and perilous voyage. B)The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea: It was a long and perilous voyage. C)The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea; it was a long and perilous voyage. D)The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea however; it was a long and perilous voyage.

C) The fleet with the wedding party on board sailed southward on the China Sea; it was a long and perilous voyage.

Explanation:

A semicolon is used to link two independent clauses that are related in meaning and it gives the two ideas equal importance when used together.

The correct answer is Option C because it was effectively used to replace the coordinating conjunction "and" in the sentence, thereby linking them up together.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.