The ship was enormous, its mast was almost 40 feet high.
A.
run-on sentence
B.
repetition of ideas
C.
unclear meaning
D.
wordiness

Question

The ship was enormous, its mast was almost 40 feet high.
A. 
run-on sentence
B. 
repetition of ideas
C. 
unclear meaning
D. 
wordiness

SmexyBBG · Answer

what do you think it is

JamesTDG · Answer

Take some time to think, would the meaning of the first half change if the 2nd half leaves?

mxddi3 · Answer

To begin, you could eliminate option B. This is because the sentence does not repeat the same idea over and over. Now, we can also eliminate option D.) wordiness. The reason for this is because the sentence isn't very wordy. There aren't many words.

Now, we are left with options A and C. Now look at the sentence. Is the idea in the sentence clear? Can we tell what the author is trying to say? 
If you aren't sure we can look at it the other way. Look where the comma is. Look what is before it and after it. Could those statements stand by themselves as their own individual sentences?