Comma splice
“I think that this wasn’t an off-the-cuff slip, he wrote a column, he knew exactly what he was doing and I think it crossed from being provocative and starting a debate and actually it became rude and gratuitous,” she said.
(The Guardian.)
Should the first three clauses in the sentence above be separated by semicolons or connected by conjunctions to avoid a comma splice?
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The comma splice is sometimes an error which I make when trying to write a sentence with the run-on clauses in it. I think that my uncertainty about the usage of the comma between two independent clauses in a sentence is caused by the usage of comma in my native-tongue structures and by coming across the usage of comma between independent clauses in sentences in English books and specially in English newspapers.
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I would just use periods. In my experience, semi-colons are not used as often as learners of English think they are. Conjunctions are also possible, but seem to me unnecessary.
- I would just use periods.
- In my experience, semi-colons are not used as often as learners of English think they are.
- Conjunctions are also possible, but seem to me unnecessary.
- Clive
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I would just use periods. In my experience, semi-colons are not used as often as learners of English think they are.
Conjunctions are also possible, but seem to me unnecessary.
Clive
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