Grammar help? many points for good answers?

are these two sentences correct



the garden contaiind an assorment of colorful flowers; marigolds; petunias; and geraniums to nae a few.





and





the lake was dotted with sailboats, some had yellow sails; others had red, and one had a white sail.
Grammar help? many points for good answers?
The garden contained an assortment of colourful (or "colorful" for american spelling) flowers; marigolds, petunias and geraniums to name a few.



The lake was dotted with sailboats. Some had yellow sails, others had red and one had a white sail.
Reply:Interesting. The second sentence was 'cured' by elininating the need for internal puncuation by rewriting. The first is still incorrect. Check your textbook for use of colons. Report It
Reply:The garden contained an assortmen of flowers; marigolds, petunias, and geraniums to name a few.



The lake was dotted with sailboats; some had yellow sails, others had red, and one a white sail.





just your use of commas versus colons was wrong.







i hope this helps!!

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Reply:These two sentences need a lot of correcting. For the first one how about having it like this:



The garden contained an assortment of colorful flowers; marigolds, petunies, and geranimus are some of the few.



For the second one, try this:



The lake was dotted with sailboats; some of them had yellow sails, other had red, and there was one with a white sail.



Hope this helps!!
Reply:the garden contained an assortment of colorful flowers; marigolds, petunias, and geraniums, to name a few.



the lake was dotted with sailboats. Some had yellow sails others had red, and one had a white sail.



hope that helps!
Reply:I don't think they're right. Aside from the spelling error, I would double check your use of colons and semicolons.
Reply:The garden contained an assortment of colorful flowers----marigolds, petunias and geraniums to name a few.



The lake was dotted with sailboats: some had yellow sails, others had red, and one had a white sail.
Reply:The garden contained an assorment of colorful flowers: marigolds, petunias, and geraniums to name a few.







The lake was dotted with sailboats; some had yellow sails, others had red, and one had a white sail.



The first one takes a colon at the end of the independent clause. The colon is used before a list.



The second takes a semicolon. The following parts are independent clauses on their own. 'Some had yellow sails.' is a complete sentence in itself, for example.
Reply:You have used no capitalisation, which is wrong to start with, and there are spelling/typing mistakes.



In the first sentence the first semicolon is correct but I would use commas to separate the flowers in the list, with no punctuation before 'and'.



In the second sentence the semicolon should be after 'sailboats' as the next bit starts a new clause. The comma before 'and' should probably stay to ensure 'one had a white sail' is clearly separated from the boats having red sails.



So we have this.



The garden contained an assortment of colorful flowers; marigolds, petunias and geraniums to name a few.



and



The lake was dotted with sailboats; some had yellow sails, others had red, and one had a white sail.