An appeals court ordered the money returned, however, the IRS didn't comply.
A. Properly constructed sentence
B. Misplaced part
C. Lacks parallel parts
D. Comma splice
D
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d
Yes, that's correct. It's a comma splice because there is a comma separating two independent clauses without a conjunction or a semicolon. Here's how it could be corrected: "An appeals court ordered the money returned; however, the IRS didn't comply."