Question

Read the sentence a student wrote. As he listened to the haunting notes of the song the author realized he had found the inspiration for his next suspense novel. The teacher reviewing this sentence would point out that since this is a complex sentence, there should be a comma after “song.” compound sentence, there should be a comma after “realized.” complex sentence, there should be a comma after “inspiration.” compound sentence, there should be a comma after “found.”

Answer 1

comma should be after realized

Answer 2

Explanation:

As he listened to the haunting notes of the song the author realized he had found the inspiration for his next suspense novel. In this compound sentence the punctuiations are not used properly. The sentence should be like As he listened to the haunting notes of the song, the author realized he had found the inspiration for his next suspense novel. The comma should be there at a pause where a sentence is attached to the another.