What is this group of words? We've tried several times to locate him and we called his friends and drove by his house so we could tell him you are here. run-on fragment a good sentence comma splice

This group of words is a run-on sentence.

Explanation:

If you read the group of words out loud, you will notice there is something missing: punctuation. It sounds as if someone is saying it all in a hurry, without any pause. As a matter of fact, the lack of punctuation is what makes it a run-on sentence. What we have here is a couple of independent clauses joined without any proper punctuation - therefore, a run-on sentence. To correct it, we could use a semicolon, for instance:

We've tried several times to locate him; and we called his friends and drove by his house so we could tell him you are here.

Just to make sure to eliminate the other options:

- A fragment would be missing an essential element, such as the verb or the subject. That is not the case here.

- A comma splice is a type of run-on sentence in which only a comma is used to join the independent clauses. That is also not the case, since the sentence has no commas.

- This sentence is not "a good sentence" since its lack of punctuation makes it incorrect.

faithful servants eumaeus and philaetius:

his ragged vest then drawn aside disclosed the sign conspicuous, and the scar exposed: eager they view'd, with joy they stood amazed with tearful eyes o'er all their master gazed:

these servants know ulysses by the scar he got when he was a child - so when he showed them the mark, they immediately knew this is truly their master and they hugged him, finally starting to believe his words.