This question refers to the text "Sally Ride — The Woman Who Broke the Space Ceiling," and after due analysis we can perform the following change in punctuation in sentence 17:
B. Insert a comma after atmosphere.
Changing sentence 17
In the article we are analyzing here, sentence 17 has a punctuation issue. It says, "When the shuttle broke free of Earth’s atmosphere Ride broke through the country’s highest glass ceiling by becoming the first American woman to fly in space." However, a change must be performed.
The sentence begins with a subordinate clause. For that reason, a comma must be placed to separate the subordinate clause from the main one. Since the clause ends with the word "atmosphere," we should place a comma right after it.
That means the correct sentence would be: "When the shuttle broke free of Earth’s atmosphere, Ride broke through the country’s highest glass ceiling by becoming the first American woman to fly in space."
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