The teacher reviewing this sentence would point out that since this is a complex sentence, there should be a comma after “song.”
<u>Explanation:</u>
In order to divide or separate a portion of sentence like products in lists, clauses etc than the punctuation mark used is termed as “comma” in many languages and contexts. Here in above given complex sentence the dependent clause is “ As he listened to the haunting notes of the song” while independent clause is “ the author realized he has found the inspiration for his next suspense novel”.
Both of these different type of clause is separated with the help of comma while conjunction is applicable in compound sentences which is constructed from independent clauses and conjunction connects them.
Hi! The answer to your question would be slow in terms of progress. This means that, according to the punctuated-equilibrium model, Brent would a little behind.