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Flash flooding creates dangerous conditions rain falls too quickly to be absorbed into the ground or to drain. a. Fragment b. Run-on c. Correct

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B. Run-on because theres no stopping point on it. For example Flash flooding creates dangerous conditions, rain falls too quickly to be obsorbed into the ground or to drain.
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Answer:

The answer is b. run-on.

Step-by-step explanation:

When independent clauses are joined incorrectly, we have what is called a run-on sentence. An independent clause is a group of words that can stay alone as a sentence, which means it offers information that makes sense without the help of another sentence.

When we join independent clauses without any sort of punctuation, we have a fused sentence. When we join them only with a comma, we have a comma splice. The run-on sentence we are analyzing here is an example of a fused sentence, since it presents no punctuation:

- Flash flooding creates dangerous conditions rain falls too quickly to be absorbed into the ground or to drain.

In order to correct it and not create a comma splice, we could do as follows:

- Flash flooding creates dangerous conditions; rain falls too quickly to be absorbed into the ground or to drain. (employ a semicolon)

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