Read the sentences.The night was cold and windy. We stayed outside to study the constellations.

The sentences show a contrast: the night was cold, but the group stayed outside. “Nevertheless” signals that contrast and is correctly set off with a semicolon before it and a comma after it. Choice A expresses the contrast and uses the punctuation correctly; choice C incorrectly places a comma after “but.”

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