OpenSAT

Question #N1199

The speaker of the following passage is a historian who is explaining to a group of students the history of the printing press. The speaker has used a semicolon to separate two closely related independent clauses, each of which could stand alone as a complete sentence. However, the punctuation is incorrect because no conjunction is used to link the two clauses. Which choice correctly combines the two clauses? \begin{align*} \text{The invention of the printing press transformed the process of knowledge}\\ \text{distribution; however, it took several centuries for the printing press to become}\\ \text{widely adopted and to have a significant impact on society.}\end{align*}