30.4k views
4 votes
3. Choose the revision that corrects the following run-on sentence: He told us to meet him at 6 o'clock and he promised to be on time.

A .He told us to meet him at 6 o'clock, and he promised to be on time. B. He told us to meet him at 6 o'clock, he promised to be on time.
C. He told us to meet him at 6 o'clock he promised to be on time.
D. He told us to meet him at 6 o'clock and, he promised to be on time

2 Answers

3 votes
C is the answer hope I have helped
User Yankes
by
8.4k points
0 votes

The correct answer is A. He told us to meet him at 6 o'clock, and he promised to be on time.

Step-by-step explanation:

According to grammar, if a sentence contains two or more independent clauses these need to be separated either using a semicolon or a punctuation mark such as comma followed by a conjunction, in the cases this is omitted and the clauses are placed together a run-on sentence occurs which is a type of grammatical error.

In the sentence "He told us to meet him at 6 o'clock and he promised to be on time" the writer has used only one conjunction (and) to try to separate the clause, but this should be preceded by a comma or the conjunction should be omitted and instead a semicolon should be used. According to this, the correct revision for this is "He told us to meet him at 6 o'clock, and he promised to be on time" because this includes the comma before the conjunction that is essential to separate both clauses correctly.

User Pcampana
by
8.4k points
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.