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QuizMultiple Choice

Planning and Writing Effective Correspondence

Question 4 • ELA 10B - 2023

Read the sentence.Cooking connects to history it shows how spices were traded across continents.Which revision corrects an error?

Answer
A
Cooking connects to history; it shows how spices were traded across continents.
B
Cooking connects to history and it shows how spices were traded across continents.
C
Cooking connects to history, spices were traded across continents.
D
Cooking connects to history it shows how spices were traded.

Explanation

The sentence contains two complete thoughts: “Cooking connects to history” and “it shows how spices were traded across continents.” A semicolon correctly joins two closely related independent clauses, fixing the run-on sentence. Choice A uses a semicolon; choice B joins the clauses with “and” but needs a comma before it.

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