Question

comma splices
handbook page s-3b
edit the following statement to correct any errors. if the statement doesn’t contain any errors, click the “no errors” button.
a human disease from almost seven hundred years ago made headlines again
recently, in 2011, scientists reported reconstructing the dna of the bacterium responsible for the
black death of 1347–51.
recently. when scientists, in 2011, recently. in 2011, scientists
recently, in 2011 scientists recently in 2011, scientists
no errors

Explanation:

The original text has a comma splice: two independent clauses ("A human disease from almost seven hundred years ago made headlines again recently" and "in 2011, scientists reported reconstructing the DNA of the bacterium responsible for the Black Death of 1347–51") are incorrectly joined by only a comma. To fix this, we can replace the comma with a period and capitalize the next word, creating two complete, separate sentences.

Answer:

recently. In 2011, scientists