Question

Identify the sentence type below

Eric the Red left Norway and founded a settlement in Greenland and later he had a son called Leif Ericsson and when Leif grew older, he left Greenland to visit the king of Norway.

A. fragment
B. Sentence
C. Run-on

Answer 1

The sentence type in the given passage is C. Run-on. This is because the sentence includes multiple independent clauses joined together without proper punctuation or coordinating conjunctions. The sentence could be improved by adding appropriate punctuation or by breaking it into separate sentences.