The sentence below describes the history of early aviation, but it is missing the necessary punctuation mark between two independent clauses. Which punctuation mark should fill the blank to correctly join these clauses?
Cevap:In the early days of aviation, pioneering pilots relied solely on visual flight rules【;】 indeed, the lack of reliable gyroscopic instruments made flying through dense fog or cloud cover almost inevitably fatal.
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A semicolon (;) must fill the blank.
A semicolon is the correct punctuation mark because it links two closely related independent clauses that are not joined by a coordinating conjunction. In the given sentence, both 'In the early days of aviation, pioneering pilots relied solely on visual flight rules' and 'indeed, the lack of reliable gyroscopic instruments made flying through dense fog or cloud cover almost inevitably fatal' are complete thoughts that can stand alone as sentences. The transition word 'indeed' reinforces the relationship between these two independent clauses, requiring a semicolon before it to separate them grammatically.
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