2014-06-16 09:00:39

Malta is a small island nation in the Mediterranean that has English as an official language                                  (A)                                                  (B)
it was a British territory from 1814 to 1964. No error                                                                  (C)                                (D)                             (E)

The correct answer is C

The error in this sentence occurs at choice C, where the sentence creates a run-on: it links two independent clauses ("Malta is... language" and "it was... 1964") by using no grammatical devices. This sentence structure error could be corrected by inserting the word "because," which would make the second clause dependent.