THE CORRECT ANSWER IS ; / BETTER.DEFINITIONS

30. The correct answer is ; / better.Definitions:best - adj. superlative of good; surpassing all others in quality; most satisfactorybetter - adj. comparative of goodExplanation: A comma or a period would work after the word tasty, but the first part of this sentence tests your usage of the colon and the semicolon. A colon is used to introduce something. The first part of the sentence, the salad is tasty, is not introducing anything. It is just a statement. Here is an example of one way to properly use a colon: this sentence. Before the colon, I introduced you to the idea of an example, and after the colon, I gave you the example. A semicolon is used to connect two complete sentences. The taste of the salad and the taste of the soup are two separate ideas. Therefore, the semicolon is correct. "This sentence" is not a complete sentence, so you could not use a semicolon in the example sentence. You could, however, use a colon if the sentence was: "The saladwas good, but there was something even better: the soup." I introduced the idea of something better, then after the colon, I told you what it was.The word best is superlative, being used in comparison to all others in a category, or at least more than two. Better is used when comparing two items.