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Select the sentence that corrects the following sentence fragment:

After I ate the cake.

After I ate the cake. I felt really sleepy.
After I ate the cake; I felt really sleepy.
After I ate the cake, I felt really sleepy.
After I ate the cake: I felt really sleepy.

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After I ate the cake, I felt really sleepy .
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User Rzajac
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The correct statement is that "After I ate the cake, I felt really sleepy." The use of the comma in the sentence will separate two clauses. The other choices are incorrect since the use of punctuation marks do not fit in the sentence and the best option is using the comma.
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