What is the best way to combine these sentences?
Andy was Mrs. Vasquez's best pottery student. Mrs.
Vasquez recommended that Andy pursue pottery as a
career.
Select one:
a. Andy was Mrs. Vasquez's best pottery student, Mrs. Vasquez
recommended that Andy pursue pottery as a career. X This
sentence combines two independent clauses with only a
comma. This is known as a run-on.
b. Andy was Mrs. Vasquez's best pottery student Mrs. Vasquez
recommended that Andy pursue pottery as a career.
c. Because Andy was Mrs. Vasquez's best pottery student, Mrs.
Vasquez recommended that Andy pursue pottery as a career.
d. Because Andy was Mrs. Vasquez's best pottery student; Mrs.
Vasquez recommended that Andy pursue pottery as a career.

The best way to combine the two given sentences is (C) Because Andy was Mrs. Vasquez's best pottery student, Mrs. Vasquez recommended that Andy pursue pottery as a career.

What do you mean by compound sentences?

Compound sentences are the sentences which consist of two or more independent clauses. These clauses are joined together to form a sentence by using conjunctions like and, because, so, etc.

These sentences have separate meaning of their own and are not dependent on each other.

The given sentences are:

Andy was Mrs. Vasquez's best pottery student.

Mrs. Vasquez recommended that Andy pursue pottery as a career.

Both of these sentences have complete meaning of their own and can be connected by using a conjunction.

Therefore, the correct option is (C).

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