Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences

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Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences
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Run-ons and Commas Splices

• Run-on an error that occurs when two sentences
  are joined without punctuation
• Example More and more students are earning GEDs
  the value of these diplomas are under debate.
• Comma Splice an error that occurs when two
  sentences are joined with just a comma
• Example More and more students are earning GEDs,
  the value of these diplomas are under debate.

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Correcting Run-ons and Comma Splices

• Create two separate sentences.
• INCORRECT Muslims fast during daylight for a
  period of thirty days (,) this period is called
  Ramadan. (No commarun-on commasplice)
• CORRECT Muslims fast during daylight for a
  period of thirty days. This period is called
  Ramadan.

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Corrections

• Use a coordinating conjunction
• INCORRECT The Emancipation Proclamation freed
  U.S. slaves in 1863 slaves in Texas were not
  officially freed until June 19, 1865.
• CORRECT The Emancipation Proclamation freed U.S.
  slaves in 1863, but slaves in Texas were not
  officially freed until June 19, 1865.

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Corrections

• Use a Semicolon or a Semicolon and Conjunctive
  Adverb
• INCORRECT Its is a possessive pronoun, its is a
  contraction.
• CORRECT Its is a possessive pronoun however,
  its is a contraction.

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Corrections

• Use a subordinating conjunction (like when,
  although, or because) or relative pronoun (like
  who, which, or that).
• INCORRECT Horace Mann was the first president of
  Antioch College, he encouraged the development of
  students social consciences.
• CORRECT w/subordinating conjunction When Horace
  Mann was the first president of Antioch College,
  he encouraged the development of students social
  consciences.
• CORRECT w/relative pronoun Horace Mann, who was
  the first president of Antioch College, enouraged
  the development of students social consciences.