The football star visited the school and he explained how much he values his education then he encouraged the students to stay in school and told them to set strict goals for themselves.

Choice C correctly separates the ideas into complete sentences and uses a comma before “and” to join the first two independent clauses. “Then he encouraged the students to stay in school” and “He told them to set strict goals for themselves” are also complete sentences. The other choices incorrectly break up sentences or leave a sentence fragment, such as “To stay in school” in A.

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