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Many people play a musical instrument music can be soothing. A lot of schools teach the recorder; it is inexpensive and easy to play. The guitar is another excellent instrument for beginners, it takes more practice than a recorder.
What type of error is present in the underlined sentence?
Which is the best revision to fix the error?
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Error: a run-on (fused) sentence — two independent clauses are joined with no punctuation.
Best revision:
"Many people play a musical instrument. Music can be soothing."
(You could also fix it with a semicolon: "Many people play a musical instrument; music can be soothing." or add a conjunction: "Many people play a musical instrument because music can be soothing.")
Best revision:
"Many people play a musical instrument. Music can be soothing."
(You could also fix it with a semicolon: "Many people play a musical instrument; music can be soothing." or add a conjunction: "Many people play a musical instrument because music can be soothing.")
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