CHAPTER 9 RUN-0N SENTENCES

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Run-on Sentences: Review & Practice

Review & Practice

Instructions
This Review and Practice exercise is an opportunity for you to test your understanding of what you have studied in Chapter 9: Run-on Sentences. There are two parts to this exercise. If you have already done the first part, you can skip to the second part by clicking here.
To see if a sentence is a run-on, check for two or more independent clauses with no conjunction between them. A comma is not a connector.
Click on the "sentence" button and a run-on sentence will appear. Put a slash (/) at the point where one independent clause runs into another.

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To correct a run-on, you may separate the independent clauses into distinct sentences, using a period and a capital letter.
Correct the following run-on sentences by inserting a comma and a capital letter where they are appropriate.

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To correct a run-on, you may join the independent clauses in a compound sentence using a conjunction or a semicolon.
Using the conjunction given in parentheses, combine the independent clauses of each run-on below.

7.   (AND)



8.   (BUT)



9.   (SO)



To correct a run-on, you may embed one clause in the other, using a dependent word.
Using the dependent word given in parentheses, embed the second clause of each run-on below.

10.   (AS)



11.   (UNTIL)



12.   (BECAUSE)



To correct a run-on, you may reduce one verb to a verbal and embed the verbal or verbal phrase.
Changing the verbs in ALL CAPS to verbals, embed one of the thoughts in each run-on below. Each verbal will become a modifier for another word.

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You may be tempted to run two independent clauses together when one of them makes a command.
Correct each of the following run-ons by the method indicated.

16.   (Separate with a period and a capital letter.)



17.   (Combine with the conjunction or.)



18.   (Deprive one clause of its independence by using the dependent word since.)



19.   (Reduce the second clause to a verbal and rewrite the whole sentence.)



20.   (Combine with the conjunction so.)



21.   (Separate with a period and a capital letter.)



You may be tempted to run two independent clauses together when the second clause begins with a pronoun.
Correct each of the following run-ons by the method indicated.

22.   (Combine with a conjunction.)



23.   (Deprive one clause of its independence by adding a dependent word.)



24.   (Reduce the second clause to a verbal and rewrite the whole sentence.)



25.   (Deprive the second clause of its independence by adding a dependent word.)



26.   (Separate with a period and a capital letter.)



27.   (Combine with a semicolon.)



You may be tempted to run two independent clauses together when the second clause contains a transitional modifier.
Correct each of the following run-ons by the method indicated.

28.   (Combine with the conjunction and.)



29.   (Separate with a period and a capital letter.)



30.   (Reduce the second clause to a verbal and rewrite the sentence.)