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A phone rang in the concert hall the orchestra stopped playing.

What common sentence-construction error does this show?

comma splice
run-on sentence
sentence fragment
missing punctuation

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Run-on sentence — it fuses two independent clauses ("A phone rang in the concert hall" and "the orchestra stopped playing") without proper punctuation or a conjunction.