Here is the passage again:

O'Neil quietly closed the front door and tiptoed through the living room. Hoping not to wake his sleeping mother, who would begin a loud and long lecture on missing curfew.

You chose to use Punctuation Rule 3 to fix the problem:

Main clause + , + participle phrase.

The correction looks like this:

O'Neil quietly closed the front door and tiptoed through the living room, hoping not to wake his sleeping mother, who would begin a loud and long lecture on missing curfew.

Well done! You deserve that chocolate bar!

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