Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Question

The ferry leaves at seven every morning ____ passengers are asked to arrive by a quarter to.

Accepted Answer

A. morning. Passengers. Each side of the blank is a complete sentence. A period is one correct way to separate them.

Answer

B. morning, passengers — A comma alone between two complete sentences is a comma splice.

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C. morning passengers — With nothing between them the two sentences run together.

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D. morning, and, passengers — 'and' can join them after a comma, but the second comma, after 'and', is wrong — nothing is being set off there.

Standard English Conventions practice question