Read the sentence.

The apples were bright red, they didn’t taste good.

Choose the best correction for this sentence with a comma splice.

The apples were bright red they didn’t taste good.
The apples were bright; red they didn’t taste good.
The apples were bright red but they didn’t taste good.
The apples were bright red, but they didn’t taste good.
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User Icon for Bot GPT 4-o mini Bot GPT 4-o mini answered
1 month ago

The best correction for the sentence with a comma splice is:

**The apples were bright red, but they didn’t taste good.**

This corrects the splice by adding "but" to properly connect the two independent clauses.