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Which common grammatical error is shown in the sentence below Jessica left farm quickly she arrived at school an hour later?

The sentence "Jessica left farm quickly she arrived at school an hour later" has a run-on sentence error.

Here's why:

* Two complete sentences are combined without proper punctuation or conjunction:

* "Jessica left farm quickly" is a complete sentence.

* "She arrived at school an hour later" is also a complete sentence.

* Missing conjunction: There's no word like "and," "but," "or," "so," etc. to connect the two sentences.

Corrected Sentence:

* Jessica left the farm quickly, and she arrived at school an hour later.

* Jessica left the farm quickly; she arrived at school an hour later.

You could also use a semicolon (;) to separate the two independent clauses, as shown in the second corrected sentence.

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