Question

The students read many books, piles lay all around the library.

Which revision corrects the comma splice?
 

A) Change the comma to a semi-colon.

B) Place a semi-colon after read.

C) Delete the comma.

D) Move the comma after piles.

Answer 1

I believe it's A) Change the comma to a semi-colon hope this helps :)

Answer 2

The students read many books, piles lay all around the library.

Option A is correct. Change the comma to a semi-colon.

The semicolon is a punctuation mark that devides major sentence elements. A semicolon can be placed between two closely related independent clauses, provided they are not already connected by a coordinating conjunction. Moreover, semicolons can be used in place of commas to separate items in a list, particularly when the elements of that list contain commas.