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Response and Rationale for Writing Subtest Sample Question #4

Answer: Getting up early was no problem.I like to fish

 

Rationale: Again, the problem sentence is a run-on sentence: it contains two independent clauses, and a sentence is allowed to contain only one unless there is a coordinating conjunction. An alternate answer could be “Getting up early was no problem because I like to fish.”In the alternate, the run-on sentence is corrected by incorporating the independent clause into a relative clause.

 

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