How would you correct the following run on sentence? the student completed the exam they failed because they did not study.

a. add a semicolon between the two independent clauses where the second independent clause begin with the a capitalized letter.

b. join the two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction followed by a coma.

c. add a semicolon followed by a dependent clause

d. add a semicolon , then the transition , then the comma between two independent clauses

Hurry and i will give 24 points who answer this read the excerpt from act 2, scene 1, of julius caesar. [brutus.] th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. and to speak truth of caesar, i have not known when his affections swayed more than his reason. but & lquo; tis a common proof that lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. so caesar may. then lest he may, prevent. and since the quarrel will bear no colour for the thing he is, fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented, would run to these and these extremities; and therefore think him as a serpent’s egg which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell. which quotations support the central idea that brutus thinks caesar needs to be killed before he becomes dangerous? select three options. “and to speak truth of caesar, / i have not known when his affections swayed / more than his reason.” “but 'tis a common proof / that lowliness is young ambition’s ladder” “looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees / by which he did ascend” “and since the quarrel / will bear no colour for the thing he is” “and therefore think him as a serpent’s egg / which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous, / and kill him in the shell.”