Choose the answer that describes the following word group.
The book was on the table it was open to the first page.
pls hurry :(
sentence fragment
comma fault
run-on sentence
dependent clause

Question

Choose the answer that describes the following word group.
The book was on the table it was open to the first page. 
pls hurry :(
       sentence fragment
       comma fault
       run-on sentence
       dependent clause

jagatuba · Answer

Your answer.

jagatuba · Answer

Hurry and I'll tell you if your right!

anonymous · Answer

b

jagatuba · Answer

My answer is run-on because those are two independent clauses

anonymous · Answer

i think ur right

jagatuba · Answer

comma fault would occur if one was dependent and the other was independent I think.

anonymous · Answer

sounds right :)

anonymous · Answer

If one were dependent and the other independent, you'd have a complex sentence.

jagatuba · Answer

yes, but if the comma was missing  you would have a comma fault, no?

jagatuba · Answer

Or is a comma fault the same as a comma splice?

anonymous · Answer

No, though you would have a missing comma.  The only difference between a run-on and a comma fault is that in the first there is nothing conjoining the two sentences and in the second there is a comma (where something stronger should be) joining the two sentences.

jagatuba · Answer

On any case it is a run=on by process of elimination anyway.

anonymous · Answer

Bingo.  Comma splice and comma fault are the same thing.

anonymous · Answer

Run-on