Identify the syntactic flaw in the sentence: 'The committee submitted its recommendations, the board approved them without amendment.'
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. comma splice
- Step 1: The sentence links two complete independent clauses ('The committee submitted...' and 'the board approved...') with only a comma. Joining two independent clauses with a comma and no coordinating conjunction is a comma splice error. Answer: comma splice. Why not the others: "dangling modifier in clause" involves a modifying phrase that lacks a logical subject in the main clause; "faulty comparative frame" compares two items that are grammatically or logically non-comparable; "misplaced adverbial word" places an adverb in an ambiguous syntactic position that distorts sentence meaning.
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