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EXERCISE $20-2$ Run$-$on sentences

One sentence in each of the following pairs is a run$-$on sentence. Find and correct the error, using an effective revision strategy. Mark the correct sentence $"$OK$."$ Example:

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a$.$ Joe Hill may not have been the first martyr of the labor movement, however, he was certainly its most skillful worker with words and music.

b$.$ Before his arrest in $1914$ for killing a grocer in Salt Lake City, Joe Hill was simply the Swedish immigrant Joseph Hillstrom; no one knew or cared much about him. OK

$1$a$.$ Ralph Chaplin was the only person who wrote anything about Joe Hill before Hill's execution, he jotted down just a few notes based on an interview with a drunken sailor.

b$.$ Serious historical research has not confirmed or denied those notes because researchers have turned up quite different stories.

$2$a$.$ All the evidence introduced at Hill's trial was circumstantial; furthermore, the dead man's son, who had witnessed the murder, refused to identify Hill as the gunman.

b$.$ Did the state hide evidence it certainly seemed that way.

$3$a$.$ One Wobbly told the police that he had been with Joe Hill in another location on the night of the murder, he also told a detective he could prove Hill's innocence.

b$.$ That man was promptly arrested and held in jail for the duration of the trial.

$4$a$.$ At the end of the trial the man was released and ordered to get out of the state.

b$.$ Hill's own attorneys did not do much to help him their attitude was as negative as that of the prosecutors.

$5$a$.$ Because of their negative attitude, Hill discharged both of the attorneys who were supposed to be defending him.

b$.$ "I have three prosecutors here, I intend to get rid of two of them," he said.

$6$a$.$ The state never showed a motive for the murder; furthermore, much evidence that Hill's attorneys could have used was never introduced.

b$.$ How did Hill get that bullet wound in his chest, he told the doctor he had gotten it