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ACT English Difficulty: Hard (520)

Digital ACT English Practice Question #1869

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Choose the best option for the underlined portion: The research vessel docked in Reykjavik for forty-eight hours, the scientific crew replenished their nitrogen supplies and recalibrated the sonar arrays.
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Two complete sentences joined by only a comma = comma splice. Choose the semicolon.

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The original sentence contains a comma splice (two independent clauses joined only by a comma). A semicolon properly connects them....

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