Question

Dickens was a very popular​ novelist, but he had to set a grueling schedule for himself in order to meet his​ public's demands, for many of his novels were​ serialized, so he had to publish a new installment every week.
(A) The sentence uses excessive coordination.
(B) The sentence uses excessive slang
(C) The sentence does not have enough independent clauses
(D) The sentence uses excessive subordination.

Answer 1

Answer: A

Explanation:

Clauses are independent:

Dickens

but he had

for many

so he had

Almost all of them have a coordinating conjunction. We can consider an excess.

There is no slang; it has a lot of independent clauses. There are not subordinate clauses.