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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Is this a sentence
Quickly he ran to the fence, the horses had escaped during the night.
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No, it's two sentences.
- No, it's two sentences.
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It´s called a comma splice, which means you have joined two independent clauses with a comma, which is not correct. It should be:
Either, "Quickly he ran to the fence, but the horses had escaped..."
Or, "Quickly he ran to the fence. The horses had escaped..."
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