Read the sentence. Roland, the artist, brilliantly captured the fading pastel light on his canvas, and he preserved the sunset for future generations to enjoy. Which statement correctly describes the sentence?

The sentence contains two complete thoughts: “Roland, the artist, brilliantly captured the fading pastel light on his canvas” and “he preserved the sunset for future generations to enjoy.” Each has a subject and a verb and can stand alone as an independent clause. The coordinating conjunction “and” joins them, so the sentence is two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.

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