Run on sentence (OG12 - 68)

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Run on sentence (OG12 - 68)

by geemat » Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:21 am
The first trenches that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but independently of the more celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq.

(A) that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but

(B) that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East were arising simultaneously with but also

(C) having been cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East were arising simultaneously but

(D) cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence of centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arising simultaneously but also

(E) cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arose simultaneously with but

OA is E But my doubt is that this choice is making it a run on sentence, please clarify.
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by crackthetest » Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:16 pm
IMO E.

This choice clearly states every thing in past tense, have yielded, arose...

I dont see a run on here.

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by geemat » Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:10 pm
@crackthetest: IMO, there sud be a comma before can otherwise it's a run on...
wat say?

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by nervesofsteel » Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:17 am
it should be A or E

IMO E because "that were arising simultaneously" in choice A is wrong here ..

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