Read the example.A phone rang in the concert hall the orchestra stopped playing.What common sentence-construction error does this show?

The sentence contains two complete thoughts: “A phone rang in the concert hall” and “the orchestra stopped playing.” They are run together without punctuation or a connecting word, creating a run-on sentence. A comma splice would use a comma alone to join the two thoughts, but there is no comma here.

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