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Medium Reading and Writing · Standard English Conventions · None · MCQ

“The sun,” he wrote, “is a giant ball of burning gas that provides warmth and light to the earth, and without it, no life could exist on our planet.”

Which choice best corrects the punctuation errors in the sentence?

A
“The sun,” he wrote, “is a giant ball of burning gas that provides warmth and light to the earth and without it, no life could exist on our planet.”
B
“The sun,” he wrote, “is a giant ball of burning gas that provides warmth and light to the earth; and without it, no life could exist on our planet.”
C
“The sun,” he wrote, “is a giant ball of burning gas that provides warmth and light to the earth, and without it, no life could exist on our planet.”
D
“The sun,” he wrote, “is a giant ball of burning gas that provides warmth and light to the earth, and without it no life could exist on our planet.”

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