Choose the correct punctuation for the following sentence: Mabel really loved the book ___ however, she could not afford to buy it.

A semi-colon (;) would correctly separate the first main clause “Mabel really loved the book” with the second clause. It is a punctuation mark used to separate parts of a sentence that need more separation than a comma and to separate main clauses not joined by conjunctions.

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