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[Crisi]

Dear teachers,

Could you tell me if the following sentence is correct?

I had prepared for this examination very well, I had learned all the themes and read all the fifty book I had to read.

Thank you very much in advance for you assistance.

[asterix]

I had prepared for this examination very well; I had learned all the themes, and read all the fifty books I had to read.

I feel that a semi-colon would be better than a comma after well.

[Crisi]

- books, of course - was just a typo

[Mary W. Ng]

To emphasize the fact that I had indeed prepared well for the examination, I'd rewrite the sentence as follows:

I had prepared very well for this examination: I had learned all the themes and had read all the fifty books I had to read.

The colon is used to introduce a second clause that explains the first.
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[Crisi]

THANK YOU!