Identify which revision of the following example is correct:
Smithville was once a small mountain town, today it is a busy city of sixty thousand.
A) Smithville was once a small mountain town, but today it is a busy city of sixty thousand.
B) Smithville was once a small mountain town today it is a busy city of sixty thousand.
C) Smithville was once a small mountain town however today it is a busy city of sixty thousand.
D) There are no errors.

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Option A correctly uses "but" to connect two independent clauses, improving the sentence's clarity and grammatical correctness.

Identify Which Revision of the Following Example Is Correct