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QuizMultiple Choice

Clauses: Building and Refining Compound and Complex Sentences

Question 8 • GA-Literature and Composition II A

Read the example.If you want to know how Dickens’s last novel would end.What common error in sentence construction is evident in this example?

Answer
A
comma splice
B
run-on sentence
C
sentence fragment
D
missing conjunction

Explanation

“If you want to know how Dickens’s last novel would end” begins with “if,” which makes it a dependent clause. It does not express a complete thought on its own, so it is a sentence fragment, not a complete sentence.

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