Every morning I have too many cups of my favorite coffee.

a. drink:
b. drink;

Semicolon (;) is used to combine two independent clauses. It is also used like a period, and it does not need a conjunction. Here is an example below.

He is tired. He wants to sleep.

Is equal to:

He is tired; he wants to sleep.

**There is a difference between these punctuation marks. When using a semicolon, lowercase the second clause.

Besides, semicolon can be used as a super comma when listing an item that has contained comma. Here is an example below.

They want to go to Miami, Florida; and Brooklyn, NYC.

Colon (:) is used to show an explanation/an example/an answer/a list. There are some examples below.

My mom loves her daughters: Mary and Anne.

He loves two kinds of flower: rose and sunflower.

Colon is also used in a quotation, when the first sentence before a quote is an independent clause:

My classmate gave me a piece of advice: “Never talk to our teacher like that.”

the answer a: perseverance !

scholarship is an sc because, by definition, a subject complement is the adjective, noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb, for example the verb be (in any of its forms).