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Identify the following sentence as RUN-ON, COMMA SPLICE, FRAGMENT, or CORRECT:

There’s a new smart-phone app that will write your English essays for you but the program has terrible grammar

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Answer:

Run-on

Step-by-step explanation:

"There's a new smart-phone app that will write your English essays for you" and "the program has terrible grammar" are both independent clauses, incorrectly joined without correct punctuation. There should be a comma before the conjunction "but".

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