Answer :
The right answer is A!
Semicolon separates related, but independent clauses (but full clauses! ones that provide a full proposition, that is each be a sentence on their own!)
in B, C, and D the ; splits a clause into two parts, and this is not supposed to happen
Semicolon separates related, but independent clauses (but full clauses! ones that provide a full proposition, that is each be a sentence on their own!)
in B, C, and D the ; splits a clause into two parts, and this is not supposed to happen
Answer: A. Alive, the elephant was worth at least a hundred pounds; dead, he would only be worth the value of his tusks, five pounds, possibly.
Explanation: A is the correct answer. A semi-colon separates two independent clauses.