Comma splice
"From time to time, a political story emerges that is so silly, I begin to worry if I am in fact not covering politics at all, but have actually been hit by a large object and fallen into a deep coma, or perhaps have accidentally ingested a great quantity of mind-altering drugs."
(From inews.)
Is I begin to worry if I am in fact not covering politics at all a subordinate clause with the subordinator "that" ellipted or are there two independent clauses separated by the comma in the paragraph above?
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) Is I begin to worry if I am in fact not covering politics at all a subordinate clause with the subordinator "that" ellipted Yes or are there two independent clauses separated by the comma in the paragraph above? No
- ) Is I begin to worry if I am in fact not covering politics at all a subordinate clause with the subordinator "that" ellipted Yes or are there two independent clauses separated by the comma in the paragraph above?
- No
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"From time to time, a political story emerges that is so silly that I begin to worry if I am in fact not covering politics at all, but have actually been hit by a large object and fallen into a deep coma, or perhaps have accidentally ingested a great quantity of mind-altering drugs."
(From inews.)
Is I begin to worry if I am in fact not covering politics at all a sub
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