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Problem

Because he had recently moved to a new school Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school.

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Clue

Punctuations help end, pause, and emphasize certain sentence parts.

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Hint

Commas separate phrases and clauses, a period ends a sentence, and a semicolon is used to join two logically connected independent clauses together, the dash is used to provide additional information that complements the main purpose of the sentence.

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Sumup

Please summarize choices

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Step

CHOICES

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Choice-A

Because he had recently moved to a new school Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school. The sentence is incorrect due to a lack of proper punctuation to separate the two related but distinct ideas.

Wrong No change

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Choice-B

Because he had recently moved to a new School,Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school. The sentence is incorrect due to the unnecessary capitalization of "School."

Wrong School,Lucas

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Choice-C

Because he had recently moved to a new school, Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school. The sentence is correct due to the proper use of a comma to connect the dependent and independent clauses.

Correct school; Lucas

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Choice-D

Because he had recently moved to a new School-Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school. The sentence is incorrect due to the use of a hyphen instead of a proper punctuation mark to connect the two clauses.

Wrong School-Lucas

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Step

Complete sentence - Because he had recently moved to a new school, Lucas was sometimes lonely because he had no new friends in school.

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Answer

Option C

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Sumup

Please summarize choices