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practice grammar quiz: fragment/splice/run on quiz english 10 (52906-am…

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practice grammar quiz: fragment/splice/run on quiz
english 10 (52906-am-c226) schug, darden / grammar / grammar group 2 (52) / quizzes

  1. the bird is flying very high, i think he is going to go into space.

the bird is flying very high, and i think he is going to go into space.
the bird is flying very high and i think he is going to go into space.
correct as is
the bird is flying very high / i think he is going to go into space.

Explanation:

Brief Explanations

The original sentence "The bird is flying very high, I think he is going to go into space." is a comma splice (two independent clauses joined by just a comma). To correct it, we can use a coordinating conjunction (like "and") with a comma before it (for clarity in compound sentences) or just the conjunction without the comma (though the first corrected option with the comma before "and" is more standard for joining two independent clauses. The option "The bird is flying very high, and I think he is going to go into space." correctly uses a comma and the conjunction "and" to join the two independent clauses, fixing the comma splice. The other options either have incorrect punctuation (missing the comma before "and" in the second option, incorrect punctuation in the last option with just a period[LLM SSE On Failure]

Answer:

The original sentence "The bird is flying very high, I think he is going to go into space." is a comma splice (two independent clauses joined by just a comma). To correct it, we can use a coordinating conjunction (like "and") with a comma before it (for clarity in compound sentences) or just the conjunction without the comma (though the first corrected option with the comma before "and" is more standard for joining two independent clauses. The option "The bird is flying very high, and I think he is going to go into space." correctly uses a comma and the conjunction "and" to join the two independent clauses, fixing the comma splice. The other options either have incorrect punctuation (missing the comma before "and" in the second option, incorrect punctuation in the last option with just a period[LLM SSE On Failure]