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

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Mercury · Answer

full question (please post these next time)

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

Mercury · Answer

major hint: the first part of the sentence, before the word fortunately, is an independent clause because it can stand by itself. with that said, what punctuation does it require?