have been verb ing
because a verb is a an action word so for example I have been running done
it wouldn't make sense to put runed
be running
or have runed
The answers are: B, C and D.
In A, there is no punctuation.
B) Terry practiced her Tae Kwon Do; she wanted to do well in the competition Saturday. <em>The two independent clauses are joined by a semicolon.</em>
In C, <em>An independent clause and a dependent clause are joined by a subortinating conjuction, using a comma.</em>
D) Terry practiced her Tae Kwon Do because she wanted to do well in the competition Saturday. <em>The two independent clauses are joined by a conjunction (because).</em>
Answer:
3
Explanation:
Because it has quotation marks in the beggining and the end. Also, there is a comma before the quotating mark which is correct i think.