Unit Test 2: Part B (Identifying Run-ons and Comma Splices)
Read the following section in your Bedford
Handbook before you start the exercises:
Section 20. Yes, all of it!
Also, make sure to try out some of the practice problems online with the Hacker website
(Dave’s email is david-holper@redwood.edu for the login). Then go to Grammatical
Sentences and do the exercises under Run-on Sentences.
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Practice
Problems:
Find and repair the following run-ons and comma splices using the above
methods. If the sentence is correct,
label it that, and leave it alone.
1) Though you may not have
heard of me, I am just a poor boy in a poor county my story is seldom told.
2) In all the rush of the
1980s, we loved to party hardy late into the crazy night,
however, we suffered for it the next day when we had to take tests.
3) I grew up in
4) Eureka is a nice town to
grow up in, yet many people move away because they want to see the larger
world.
5) George Bush is our president
and commander in chief, he is now seeking another tax cut for all Americans,
particularly the wealthy ones.
6) Grades are not a measure of
your worth, they do not measure whether you are good,
bad, or indifferent.
7) As
1) Making a lot of money is not
necessarily the solution to life's problems, money cannot make a child feel
loved, it cannot guarantee a sense of purpose, and it doesn't provide
forgiveness.
2) One doesn't often ask what
is funny that seems obvious because we laugh.
10)
If enough people want to see the government change, then they can indeed change
it corporations are relatively powerless to vote they only have money to
influence votes.