Barren seems like the best work for stark.
My complaint is.
Littering on the beach. Too many people just throw their trash on the beach for someone else to clean up. Well no one will clean it up.It gets washed into the ocean where sea creatures can get to it. Then come along some innocent dolphins interested on whats lying in the ocean. They start playing with it and suddenly they get trapped in the trash. they could get badly hurt or even die. Just from people littering. So please any one whose reading this if you go to the beach any time soon. Don't litter and clean up other trash you see lying around.
Answer: The three correct options are:
1.Ariana got lost on the way to the festival; she ended up twenty miles from where we planned to meet.
3.Ariana got lost on the way to the festival, and she ended up twenty miles from where we planned to meet
4.Ariana got lost on the way to the festival. She ended up twenty miles from where we planned to meet.
Explanation: 1. Use a semicolon between two closely related independent clauses. 3. Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction such as <em>and, but, or, & yet. </em>4. Separate the two clauses into two sentences. Use a period at the end of the first sentence. Start the new sentence with a capital letter.
2. Is incorrect. It is an example of a "comma splice" where a comma is used instead of the other correct options.
Option a: qualitative data uses words, while quantitative data uses numbers.
Qualitative data are observed, not measured. Quantitative data can be measured.
