Avoiding Comma Splices, Run-Ons, and Fused Sentences
This tutorial will help you accomplish the following learning objectives:
- Recognize three common sentence errors: comma splice, run-on, and fused sentence
- Know the difference between these sentence errors
- Understand some common causes of these sentence errors
- Know how to correct comma splice, run-on, and fused sentence errors
- Check and apply your skills.
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