Read the sentence.

Before I baked the cake, I bought the ingredients, I measured them.

Choose the best correction for this sentence with a comma splice.

A Before I baked the cake I bought the ingredients, I measured them.

B Before I baked the cake, I bought the ingredients I measured them.

C Before I baked the cake; Ibought the ingredients, I measured them. DBefore I baked the cake, I bought the ingredients, and I measured them.

D

Explanation:

A) "Before I bought the cake" is a dependent clause, and needs a comma. So incorrect.

B) The second part after the comma makes zero sense. There is no coordinating conjunction to make it a compound sentence. You can't just smush two independent clauses together.

C) You can't use a semicolon, because they combine two sentences, and "Before I bought the cake" is a dependent clause.

D) This is a correct sentence. It is a complex sentence combined with a compound sentence.