Which of the following sentences is a fused sentence? A. My yard fills up with worms whenever it rains. B. The countryside has really changed, it looks more like a city now. C. That loud noise was hail. D. I hate gossip it destroys people's lives.

D. I hate gossip it destroys people's lives.

Explanation:

Fused Sentence- When two independent clauses are run together without a proper punctuation or conjunction between them. The sentences are run on with two main clauses clubbed together without punctuation. Each clause is complete on its own but are joined together with an error in between. The error can be removed by adding a comma or semicolon or other conjunctions depending upon the sentence structure.

Main clause + error + Main clause

Example:

I hate gossip it destroys people's lives

The sentence is an example of fused sentence as two two independent clauses run together without a proper punctuation.

I hate gossip + it destroys people's lives

Correct- I hate gossip, it destroys people's lives.

c. nature verses humanity is correct

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