Run on Comma Splice

Mark Twain wrote Tom Sawyer, it is a funny book. 

• Run-on

• Comma splice

• Fragment

• Complete sentence

The war lasted ten years many young men were killed. 

• Run-on

• Comma splice

• Fragment

• Complete sentence

I go to bed at 10:00 otherwise I can’t get up in the morning. 

• Run-on

• Comma splice

• Fragment

• Complete sentence

I go to bed at 10:00, otherwise, I can’t get up in the morning. 

• Run-on

• Comma splice

• Fragment

• Complete sentence

Some educated people believe in witchcraft, I am not one of them. 

• Run-on

• Comma splice

• Fragment

• Complete sentence

I rode my bike over the glass, I got a flat tire.

• Fragment

• Comma Splice

• Fused

• Correct

She runs two kilometres every day, she is very healthy.

• Fused

• Correct

• Fragment

• Comma Splice

Which of the following sentences is an example of a comma splice?

• I went to the store, I bought some milk.

• I went to the store and bought some milk.

• Because I went to the store, I bought some milk.

• I went to the store; I bought some milk.

Identify the error in the following sentence: 'The sun set, the stars appeared.'

• Run-on sentence

• Comma splice

• Fragment

• Correct sentence

What is a comma splice?

• A sentence with too many commas

• A sentence with a comma joining two independent clauses

• A sentence missing a comma

• A sentence with a comma at the end