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Which sentence is a run-on sentence? A. People breathe oxygen; fish do, too. B. When you fish, do you use worms as bait? C. A giant clam grows huge, it can weigh hundreds of pounds. D. Have you seen starfish or jellyfish on the beach?

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It's C because there are two independent/coordinate ideas without being linked by punctuation or other coordinating linkers (and, so, then, etc) .
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C because It should be a semicolon instead of a comma.
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