<span>Dear J.K. Rowling
I really appreciated your book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". The serious tone Harry uses when speaking truly underlines dire times felt within the wizarding world. I could never find the right words to use when setting my plot, but I was truly inspired by your use of diction to control the tempo of a long narrative. This tempo control ran throughout the text, emotionally tying specific plot devices to the perspective of a character and framing their state of being.
In conclusion, I hope my writing can glimpse a shadow of your craft. When I write in first person, as you did with Harry, I often now compare my use of language to your descriptive tendencies and search for improvements. Not writing extremely long sentences, or using out of character phrasing, but instead giving just enough detail to paint a vivid picture. If this gets to you, I hope you can write me back, I've attatched a pdf of a recent poem and hope you can give me some notes.
Thank you,
Sincerly...</span>
Answer:
no I do no think it contains a comma splice
What are the choices given here? Anyway, if the question is whether the sentence "The couple looked closely at the exterior of the house, they noticed; the paint was in disrepair." uses correct punctuation, I shall answer that it does not.
It could possibly be: The couple looked closely at the exterior of the house; They noticed the paint was in disrepair.
Answer: D)
Explanation: A linking verb connects the subject with a word that gives information about the subject, such as a condition or relationship. They do not show any action; they simply link the subject with the rest of the sentence. For example, in the sentence "They are a problem," the word "are" is the linking verb that connects "they" and "problem" to show the relationship between the two words.
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