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The following sentence contains a comma splice:

It was the most destructive wildfire anyone could remember, there had not been any small fires to clear out the brush in many years.

Which revision corrects the sentence?


It was the most destructive wildfire anyone could remember; since there had not been any small fires to clear out the brush in many years.


It was the most destructive wildfire anyone could remember, there had not been any small fires to clear out the brush, in many years.


It was the most destructive wildfire anyone could remember because there had not been any small fires to clear out the brush in many years.


It was the most destructive wildfire anyone could remember. there had not been any small fires to clear out the brush in many years.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
It was the most destructive wildfire anyone could remember because there had not been any small fires to clear out the brush in many years.

Explanation: This removes the comma splice by making the second clause a dependent (because...) clause that correctly links cause and effect. Options 1 and 2 are ungrammatical; option 4 has a capitalization error (and also breaks the causal connection).