identifying run - on sentences is the first step in eliminating them in your writing. select the letter of…

identifying run - on sentences is the first step in eliminating them in your writing. select the letter of the sentence below that contains a run - on.\nwhen the student fell asleep in class, everyone thought this was rude behavior\nmy cat was upset all day because he didnt get canned food for breakfast.\nmy academic advisor told me not to take 18 credit hours for the fall semester, im regretting not having listened to her.\nquestion 2\nidentifying run - on sentences is the first step in eliminating them in your writing. select the letter of the sentence below that contains a run - on.\nwe followed the map we ended up in canada instead.\ni received an a on my psychology test, and i am happy.\nalthough an immigration lawyer might help me to stay in this country, his fees are too expensive for me to afford.

identifying run - on sentences is the first step in eliminating them in your writing. select the letter of the sentence below that contains a run - on.\nwhen the student fell asleep in class, everyone thought this was rude behavior\nmy cat was upset all day because he didnt get canned food for breakfast.\nmy academic advisor told me not to take 18 credit hours for the fall semester, im regretting not having listened to her.\nquestion 2\nidentifying run - on sentences is the first step in eliminating them in your writing. select the letter of the sentence below that contains a run - on.\nwe followed the map we ended up in canada instead.\ni received an a on my psychology test, and i am happy.\nalthough an immigration lawyer might help me to stay in this country, his fees are too expensive for me to afford.

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Brief Explanations:

A run - on sentence occurs when two independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation (like a comma and a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon).

  • In the first set of options:
    • “When the student fell asleep in class, everyone thought this was rude behavior” has a dependent clause (“When the student fell asleep in class”) and an independent clause (“everyone thought this was rude behavior”) joined correctly with a comma.
    • “My cat was upset all day because he didn’t get canned food for breakfast” has a dependent clause (“because he didn’t get canned food for breakfast”) and an independent clause (“My cat was upset all day”) joined correctly.
    • “My academic advisor told me not to take 18 credit hours for the fall semester. I’m regretting not having listened to her” (assuming the original was a run - on if it was written as one sentence without proper punctuation; if it was two separate sentences, it's fine. But if it was a single - sentence attempt to join two independent clauses like “My academic advisor told me not to take 18 credit hours for the fall semester I’m regretting not having listened to her”, it's a run - on).
  • In the second set of options:
    • “We followed the map we ended up in Canada instead” is a run - on. “We followed the map” and “we ended up in Canada instead” are two independent clauses that should be joined with a comma and a coordinating conjunction (e.g., “We followed the map, but we ended up in Canada instead”) or a semicolon (“We followed the map; we ended up in Canada instead”).
    • “I received an A on my Psychology test, and I am happy” has two independent clauses joined correctly with a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
    • “Although an immigration lawyer might help me to stay in this country, his fees are too expensive for me to afford” has a dependent clause (“Although an immigration lawyer might help me to stay in this country”) and an independent clause (“his fees are too expensive for me to afford”) joined correctly with a comma.

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If we assume the first - set run - on (if it was a single - sentence improper join) and the second - set run - on: For the first question (assuming the third option was a run - on): Third option (My academic advisor told me not to take 18 credit hours for the fall semester I’m regretting not having listened to her). For the second question: First option (We followed the map we ended up in Canada instead).