Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. The rain stopped
- Step 1: Two full clauses joined by a comma need a conjunction.
- Step 2: 'so' after the comma fixes the comma splice.
Answer
The rain stopped.
Why not the others: The rain stopped, we went out.: a comma alone cannot join two sentences (comma splice). The rain stopped so, we went out.: the comma is misplaced. The rain, stopped so we went out.: the comma wrongly splits the subject and verb.
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