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their geometrical symmetries are embellished with old and new iconography.

Is that a run-on sentence? It doesn't sound like one.

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If you have a subject and a verb - you get a clause or aka sentence. If you have two of them together, you need to separate them either with a semi-colon or a conjunction and a comma. if you have two clauses unseparated, you get a Run-on sentence.

Adding ARE will add a verb and thus create an independed clause.

Also among women and houses is logically incorrect - it comnpares women and houses, but I guess you have noticed this.


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B) whose murals are brillantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are embellished with old and new iconography, and their style is varying among women and houses.
I guess these are not right because these are descriptors mixed with an independent clause, a no-no.

ETS is saying it leads to a run-on sentence, are they right?

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[quote="Curly05"][/quote]


Even if they are wrong, you can't argue


Think about it: ARE IMBELLISHED - isn't it a VERB???

Symmetries - isn't it a NOUN?

I think they do this in the third grade.
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The original questions reads thus:

BB has traveled to remote dwellings in the Transvaal to photograph the art of Ndebele women, whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house.



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