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Panda blue 483 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Comma splice or not.

Annie, Marie's Rottweiler, is killed, and her baby Anthony is missing, she attacks Helen and is forced to defend herself from Annie by cutting her with a meat cleaver.
Is this a comma splice ? Or is it usage for 'dramatic effect'.
  

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It's a comma splice. It isn't for dramatic effect. Her sister killed her.

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  • It's a comma splice.
  • It isn't for dramatic effect.
  • Her sister killed her.
  • Her sister!
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It's a comma splice. It isn't for dramatic effect.

Her sister killed her. Her sister! (That is a fragment for dramatic effect.)

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panda blue 483Annie, Marie's Rottweiler, is killed, and her baby Anthony is missing, she attacks Helen and is forced to defend herself from Annie by cutting her with a meat cleaver.

I think that a subject is missing in the clause and is forced to defend herself... .

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panda blue 483 Annie, Marie's Rottweiler, is killed, and her baby Anthony is missing, she attacks Helen and is forced to defend herself from Annie by cutting her with a meat cleaver.

This is a very poorly constructed sentence.. I assume that Anthony is Marie's baby, but it could be Marie's. It is very strange that she (Marie?) attacks Helen

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