Question

Read the sentences below carefully and answer the question that follows.

1. Ladybugs are crafty creatures, when they feel threatened, they pull their legs and antennae under their shells like a turtle.

2. Ladybugs are crafty creatures; when ladybugs are threatened, they pull their legs and antennae under their shells like turtles.

Which type of error does sentence 1 have, and which technique is used in sentence 2 to correct sentence 1?

A.
sentence fragment, corrected by using a semicolon
B.
comma splice, corrected by using a semicolon
C.
run-on sentence, corrected by separating clauses into separate sentences
D.
comma splice, corrected by rearranging and rewording

Answer 1

let's trim it down to the parts that are actually diff between 1 and 2

1. Ladybugs are crafty creatures, when they feel threatened...

2. Ladybugs are crafty creatures; when ladybugs are threatened...

notice how the comma gets changed to a semicolon

so that narrows it down to A+B

is the error a sentence fragment (a phrase that is being treated as if it is a clause) or a comma splice (two independent clauses joined by a comma)?