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Billy Cobham is a talented and respected fusion drummer, and he was born in Panama.

What is wrong with the sentence?

AThe ideas in the independent clauses are not coordinate.
BA semicolon should precede the coordinate conjunction.
C“Talented and respected” is not parallel.
DIt uses an incorrect conjunctive adverb.

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Answer: a. The idea in independent clauses are not coordinate

Explanation: Option b is incorrect because the coordinating conjunction (the second and) takes the role of the semicolon in this sentence, i.e., you can have either, but not both. "Talented and respected" is a valid parallel (participial adjective + participial adjective), so option c is discarded, while option d is false because there are no conjunctive adverbs in the sentence. The real problem is the awkward coordination between "is talented and respected" and "was born in Panama"; those two elements are not related enough to coordinate them as such.

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