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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Run-Ons, Comma Splices, and Sentence Fragments

Quiz




Match the items on the right with the items on the left.
1


run-on sentence
2


comma splice
3


independent clause
4


dependent clause
5


subordinating conjunctions
6


nor
7


wherever
8


comma
Answer choices for questions 1 through 8
A)a problem that occurs when independent clauses are separated only by a comma
B)a word group that has both a subject and verb but still cannot stand as a sentence
C)used to turn an independent clause into a dependent clause
D)a word group that can stand as a sentence
E)subordinating conjunction
F)can be used with certain conjunctions to separate independent clauses
G)a problem that occurs when two independent clauses are not separated
H)coordinating conjunction








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