Which sentence below is properly punctuated?

a. babette followed her boss's example: when he left for the day, she disappeared.
b. babette followed her boss's example, when he left for the day, she disappeared.
c. babette followed her boss's example when he left for the day, she disappeared.

A

Explanation:

A semicolon is necessary to distinguish the "introductory" phrase from the introduced element, and that role cannot be fulfilled by a comma as in the second option, much less by the absence of punctuation as in the third option, which makes the sentence even more chaotic.

a good summary is that there was a girl living in ny named nolan and was poor and the lack of waters proves here strenthghs in the times of hardships

the answer should be b.

explanation:

it should be b because she researched before writing so it would be in past tense. "the author researches her subject before she had written the first draft.