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Which is a run-on sentence?

Select one of the options below as your answer:



A.
Listening to music always has a calming effect on me.




B.
Movies are a great escape I go to the cinema often.




C.
His younger brother likes to pretend heÍs a superhero and uses his blanket as a cape.




D.
I try to drink eight glasses of water a day.

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User Minh Dao
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the answer would be letter b
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User Paul Burney
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A run-on sentence is two incorrectly joined independent clauses.

That is the case of the B.

The two clauses are 1) "Movies are a great escape", and 2) "I go to the cinema often".

You can fix the error by using end punctuation or a semicolon after the first clause.
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User Alexandr Nikitin
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