Question 12 • CMS 2026-2027 English III CREDIT RECOVERY
A comma splice occurs when a comma joins two complete sentences without a coordinating conjunction or other appropriate punctuation. In choice C, “Marco rode to school on his bicycle this morning” and “he arrived an hour early” can each stand alone as a sentence, so the comma joining them creates a comma splice. The other choices use commas appropriately.
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