Question

What is this group of words?

Answer 1

Answer:

A) a good sentence

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is: A good sentence.

Explanation:

The above statement is made up of two independent clauses. This means that each of those clauses make complete sense.

Breaking them up will be: "Miss Smith kept both of them after school."

"They hadn't done their homework."

If a comma was in between them(comma splice), it would have been wrong because the statements can stand on their own.

To use two independent clauses together in a statement, a conjunction must be used as it is in the text above ( "because" was used). Using a conjunction, a sensible idea is communicated without losing meaning of any one and the statement as a whole is considered a good sentence.