Punctuation should clarify the relationship - Paper 4

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Two draft pairs. A: 'The file was missing, the team checked the log.' B: 'The record supplied one clue the file had been renamed.' In A, both parts are independent clauses; a comma alone makes a splice in this formal writing task. B has a complete lead-in followed by its explanation or named item. Choose punctuation from the grammatical relationship, not decoration.