Question

many people play a musical instrument music can be soothing. a lot of schools teach the recorder. it is inexpensive and easy to play. the guitar is another excellent instrument for beginners. it takes more practice than a recorder. what type of error is present in the underlined sentence? which is the best revision to fix the error?

Explanation:

The sentence "Many people play a musical instrument music can be soothing." combines two independent clauses ("Many people play a musical instrument" and "music can be soothing") without proper punctuation or a conjunction, which is a run - on error. To fix it, we can add a conjunction like "because" to show the relationship between the two ideas.

Answer:

What type of error is present in the underlined sentence? run - on
Which is the best revision to fix the error? Many people play a musical instrument because music can be soothing.