Question

question 6 of 10
identify the error in the following sentence and the best way to fix it.
the girls on the team were excited about the game, gerrera had a
fever.
a. it is a run-on sentence and needs a period or semicolon.
b. it is a fragment and needs a verb.
c. it is a fragment and needs a subject.
d. it has a comma splice and needs a conjunction.

Explanation:

The sentence "The girls on the team were excited about the game, Gerrera had a chair" joins two independent clauses ("The girls on the team were excited about the game" and "Gerrera had a chair") with only a comma, which is a comma splice. The fix for this issue typically involves using a conjunction, period, or semicolon; option D correctly identifies this error and the general fix type.

Answer:

D. It has a comma splice and needs a conjunction.