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What is wrong with this sentence?

The new student is nearly seven-feet tall, I really hope he wants to join our basketball team.

A. It’s a fragment

B. It’s a run-on

C. There’s a spelling mistake

D. The comma is not needed after “tall”

Answer 1

the answer is B... it's a run on sentence...

it's really 2 sentences...

hope this helps!

Erik

Answer 2

A. A fragment consists of an incomplete thought. Since there is both a subject and a verb in this sentence (the bare minimum for a complete thought), it's not a fragment. So A is out.

B. Bingo. It's a run-on. You already have a subject ("student") and verb ("is") to complete your thought. But then the sentence continues with another whole subject ("I") and verb ("hope") combo. Now, to make this a correct sentence, all you would have to do is add a comma and a conjunction (and, but, yet, or, etc.), but there's only a comma and no conjunction. Therefore, it's got to be a run-on.

C. No spelling mistakes here.

D. Not quite. While the comma by itself is incorrect, if you left it out it would just be even more of a run-on sentence. To make it NOT a run-on sentence, you need both the comma AND the conjunction after the first complete thought.

Answer 3

The sentence is a run-on sentence. For starters, according to the site, http://writing.umn.edu/sws/assets/pdf/quicktips/run-ons.pdf the definition of a run-on sentence is: A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses are not joined correctly. ... There are two types of run-on sentences: fused sentences and comma splices. A fused sentence occurs when independent clauses run together with no marks of punctuation or coordinating conjunctions to separate them

Those are two independent clauses. You can put a period where the comma is, and it would still make sense. I hope this is helpful.