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Grammar Workshop

Grammar Workshop. Run-On Sentences: Fused Sentences and Comma Splices. Run-On Sentences. are independent clauses that have not been joined correctly. An independent clause is word group that can stand alone as a sentence. Run-on Sentences.

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Grammar Workshop

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  1. Grammar Workshop Run-On Sentences: Fused Sentences and Comma Splices

  2. Run-On Sentences • are independent clauses that have not been joined correctly. An independent clause is word group that can stand alone as a sentence.

  3. Run-on Sentences • may be independent clauses joined with no punctuation (called a Fused Sentence) • Wrong: Jamie likes chocolate ice cream Liz prefers vanilla.

  4. Run-on Sentences • may be independent clauses joined by a comma without a coordinating conjunction (called a Comma Splice) • Wrong: Jamie likes chocolate ice cream, Liz prefers vanilla.

  5. Revising Run-On Sentences • There are 4 ways to revise: • Use a comma and coordinating conjunction • Use a semicolon • Make the clauses into separate sentences • Restructure, perhaps by subordinating one of the clauses.

  6. Revise (1) • Use a comma and coordinating conjunction Wrong: Jamie likes chocolate ice cream, Liz prefers vanilla. (Comma splice) Correct: Jamie likes chocolate ice cream, but Liz prefers vanilla.

  7. Revise (2) • Use a semicolon Wrong: Jamie likes chocolate ice creamLiz prefers vanilla. ( Fused Sentence) Correct: Jamie likes chocolate ice cream; Liz prefers vanilla.

  8. Revise (3) • Make the clauses into separate sentences Wrong: Jamie likes chocolate ice creamLiz prefers vanilla. ( Fused Sentence) Correct: Jamie likes chocolate ice cream. Liz prefers vanilla.

  9. Revise (4) • Restructure, perhaps by subordinating one of the clauses. Wrong: Jamie likes chocolate ice cream, Liz prefers vanilla. ( Comma Splice) Correct: Although Jamie likes chocolate ice cream, Liz prefers vanilla

  10. Conjunctions • Remember the difference in coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

  11. Coordinating Conjunctions • draw equal attention to two or more ideas • join independent clauses: Grandmother is blind, buther hearing is sharp.

  12. FANBOYS - • Remember “FANBOYS” to help you identify coordinate conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

  13. Subordinating Conjunctions • give unequal attention to two or more ideas • join a dependent clause to an independent clause: Although Grandmother is blind, her hearing is sharp.

  14. A LONG LIST! • There are many subordinating conjunctions. Here are a few: after because since although before unless as if until

  15. Transitional Expressions • include conjunctive adverbs such as howeverand therefore • include transitional phrases such as for example and in other words Don’t confuse these with coordinating conjunctions!

  16. Transitional Expressions • may appear between two independent clauses • Use semicolon before and a comma after the transitional expression • Example: I like vanilla ice cream; in fact, I like every flavor of ice cream!

  17. Transitional Expressions • may appear at the beginning of a sentence or in the middle of an independent clause • Set it off with commas • Example: As a matter of fact, I like every flavor of ice cream! • Chocolate, however, is my favorite.

  18. Run-On Sentences • To review: • There are 2 kinds of run-on sentences – • Fused sentences • Comma splices • There are 4 ways to fix a run-on error – • Use comma and coordinating conjunction • Use a semicolon • Use a period and make a new sentence • Use subordination

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