Comma Splices Runon Sentences

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Comma Splices Run-on Sentences

• Seek and Destroy

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Definition

• Comma splice-comma fault-two or more sentences
  joined with a comma
• Run-on or fused sentence--two or more sentences
  run into each other without punctuation

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Seek

• Emily is not a nurse, she is a doctor.
• She did well in college her gpa was 3.9.
• She had intended to become a biologist, however,
  medicine seemed more exciting.
• Medicine is a human frontier, Emily says, The
  boundaries are unknown.

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Destroy

• Insert a period between the independent clauses
  (sentences).
• Place a semicolon between the independent clauses
  (sentences).
• Use a comma together with a coordinating
  conjunction (and, but, for, so,yet, or, nor).
• Revise one independent clause into a dependent
  clause and punctuate correctly.

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Practice

• One way to find a sweetheart is to put an ad in
  the paper, another is to wait and see what the
  cat drags in.
• Joan wrapped herself up in an enigma, there was
  no other was to keep warm.
• The angels are dancing the tango on the head of a
  pin afterwards theyll cool their heels in the
  River Styx.