Question

The local classic car auction raised $12,000 for local charities, the mayor is designating the funds to the children’s hospital.

Which sentence error does the text make?
sentence fragment
fused sentence
comma splice
misplaced modifier

Answer 1

The third alternative is correct (C).

When two sentences are connected because they are complementary, an element is needed to contain them, that is, a conjuction. In that case, it could have been "and". However, who wrote used the comma to amend the periods, in a wrong way because it affected the cohesion of the stretch.

"The local classic car auction raised $ 12,000 for local charities and the mayor is designating the funds to the children's hospital."

Answer 2

The correct answer is comma splice

That is because the two sentences have been improperly conjoined using a comma without any conjunctions or anything similar.