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How should the sentence below be changed to correct the punctuation error?

The knight's horse tripped on a rock and fell during the joust fortunately, neither the horse nor the knight received injuries.

A change the comma after fortunately to a semicolon
B add a semicolon afsy joust
C add a comma after joust
D add a semicolon after fell

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Answer:A when using a conjunction to connect two sentences in this manner the appropriate punctuation is a semicolon. Connecting the two sentences yet denoting that they are different so they do not run on.
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Answer:

A

Step-by-step explanation:

Proper English you want to put a semicolon after finish a sentence that continues or that drags on it's breaks it up into like 2 parts if that makes sense

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