Please help! A word that joins words, phrases, and clauses is called a(n)

a. preposition

b. auxiliary verb

c. conjunction

d. comma splice

The answer is conjunction

Explanation:

Conjunction can join words, phrases and clauses because their role in English is to join these things. Conjunctions also join two words to ask meaningful sentences

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

1.) is true

2.) is false