A phone rang in the concert hall the orchestra stopped playing. What common sentence-construction error does this show? comma splice run-on sentence sentence fragment missing punctuation

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Jesus Shepard

25 July, 14:00

A phone rang in the concert hall the orchestra stopped playing. What common sentence-construction error does this show? comma splice run-on sentence sentence fragment missing punctuation

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Derrick Bradshaw · Answer 1

Derrick Bradshaw 25 July, 14:10

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run on sentence just got a 100%

Kaliyah Matthews · Answer 2

The sentence "A phone rang in the concert hall the orchestra stopped playing" is an example of a run-on sentence. In the sentence we have two sepparate independent clauses "a phone rang in the concert hall" and "the orchestra stopped playing", which are not properly joined. To correct a run-on sentence you have to join the two independent clauses using a period, a semicolon or with a conjunction.

For example:

A phone rang in the concert hall. The orchestra stopped playing.

or

A phone rang in the concert hall and the orchestra stopped playing.