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FIVE WAYS TO CORRECT RUN-ON SENTENCES
1. PERIOD AND CAPITAL LETTER
2. COMMA AND FANBOYS CONJUCTION
3. SEMICOLON
4. SEMICOLON AND JOINING WORD
5. DEPENDANT WORD
In each sentence underline the spot where each run-on or comma splice occurs( just type it first). Then correct the ten run on sentences, using each of the five methods at least once.
1. An earthquake in Missouri in 1811 was the most powerful ever felt in the United Utates it acually changed the course of the Mississippi River.
2. John spilled molasses onto his computer keyboard he decided that having a computer in his kitchen might not have been his brightest idea.
3. Latrell walked down the snowy path she left deep footprints in the pristine snow.
4. A Venus' flytrap is a carnivorous plant it traps live insects and extracts nutrients as it digests them.
5. The delivery truck backed into the driveway it crushed a plastic pull toy that had been left out by a child.
6. Rosa looked hungrily at the juicy cheeseburger in front of her she had not eaten since breakfast.
7.Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 it is a celebration of the enviroment and its preservation.
8. The electric eel is really a fish it produces enough electricity to light a small neon bulb.
9. Jill pulled the muscles in her back as she lifted a heavy box for days afterward she could not stand up straight.
10. The egg that Brian was about to break into the frying pan slipped out of his hand, then it rolled off the kitchen counter and broke on the floor.
1. PERIOD AND CAPITAL LETTER
2. COMMA AND FANBOYS CONJUCTION
3. SEMICOLON
4. SEMICOLON AND JOINING WORD
5. DEPENDANT WORD
In each sentence underline the spot where each run-on or comma splice occurs( just type it first). Then correct the ten run on sentences, using each of the five methods at least once.
1. An earthquake in Missouri in 1811 was the most powerful ever felt in the United Utates it acually changed the course of the Mississippi River.
2. John spilled molasses onto his computer keyboard he decided that having a computer in his kitchen might not have been his brightest idea.
3. Latrell walked down the snowy path she left deep footprints in the pristine snow.
4. A Venus' flytrap is a carnivorous plant it traps live insects and extracts nutrients as it digests them.
5. The delivery truck backed into the driveway it crushed a plastic pull toy that had been left out by a child.
6. Rosa looked hungrily at the juicy cheeseburger in front of her she had not eaten since breakfast.
7.Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 it is a celebration of the enviroment and its preservation.
8. The electric eel is really a fish it produces enough electricity to light a small neon bulb.
9. Jill pulled the muscles in her back as she lifted a heavy box for days afterward she could not stand up straight.
10. The egg that Brian was about to break into the frying pan slipped out of his hand, then it rolled off the kitchen counter and broke on the floor.
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Anon, you have been given the exact direction about how to fix these. Please do so, and someone will take a look. Do you know what the FANBOYS are?
- Anon, you have been given the exact direction about how to fix these.
- Please do so, and someone will take a look.
- Do you know what the FANBOYS are?
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Anon, you have been given the exact direction about how to fix these. Please do so, and someone will take a look. Do you know what the FANBOYS are?
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