Run-on sentences, comma splices, capitalization

The show begins at 7:30 make sure you're there before 7:15

Having prepared himself well for the realtor exams and having exhausted everyone in the family with his requests that someone help him with the true-and-false drills, Jeffrey, who had never been a particularly good student in high school, knew he was ready to take on the greatest challenge of his life.

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1-     The head of state and the religious leader were often the same person all power rested in one ruler

Choose the correct way to fix the underlined problem in this sentence:

Gustavo can tolerate any lecture, no matter how boring the instructor is, in his mind, Gustavo imagines that he is on board the starship Enterprise, blasting Romulans from his post on the bridge.

• is in

• is; in

• is; In

Choose the correct way to fix the underlined problem in this sentence:

Ryan is highly allergic to cats, he requires at least twenty god-bless-yous every time he visits Sandy and her seven Siamese.

• cats he

• cats, so he

• cats, as a result, he

Capitalize words appropriately:

on sunday, i will see the movie star wars and eat at taco bell.

Capitalize words appropriately:

she has a friend from london, england.

Look at this obituary made by a bot. Can you spot any punctuation mistakes?

If you do, which one(s)?

"Brenda Trent retired from living at the age of old, surrounded by family and natural causes. A librarian from birth, Brenda was an avid collector of dust. She had a sweet heart and married her high school. She loved having hobbies and helping her sons to be disavantaged youths. She had no horses but thought she did. The church gave her a choir because she sang like a bird and looked like a bird and Brenda was a bird. She owed us so many poems.

The funeral will be held in 1977 at heave. In lieu of flowers, send Brenda more life."

Answer explanation

Comma before "but", "and".