B) After seven years without contact, my old pen pal managed to track me down on the internet, and I was thrilled to hear from her.
Run-on sentences have two parts, each part should be able to stand alone in a sentence.
Essay means in the following way
Explanation:
1.An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view.
2.Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author.
3.The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story.
4. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays. While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population are counterexamples.
5.In some countries, essays have become a major part of formal education. Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills, and admission essays are often used by universities in selecting applicants and, in the humanities and social sciences, as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams.
