| A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays Bob Brannan,
Johnson County Community College
Run-Ons, Comma Splices, and Sentence Fragments
Summary1.If we let two main clauses run together as a single sentence, without any punctuation, we have a run-on or fused sentence. |
| | | 2.Two separate sentences divided by a comma are called a comma splice. |
| | | 3.Coordinating conjunctions and semicolons can fix run-ons and comma splices. |
| | | 4.Subordination also helps avoid run-on sentences. Subordination lends itself to concision, as well. |
| | | 5.Sentence fragments are phrases constructed as sentences that cannot stand alone. They can often be fixed by attaching them to the following or previous sentence. |
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