How to Fix Run-On Sentences

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A soccer game starts with a coin toss the captain of the away team calls heads or tails

• A soccer game starts with a coin toss, the captain of the away team calls heads or tails.

• A soccer game starts with a coin toss. The captain of the away team calls heads or tails.

• A soccer game starts with a coin toss, but the captain of the away team calls heads or tails.

• No change needed

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The aim of the game is to score goals by getting the ball into the other team’s net, the team with the most goals at the end of the game wins.

• The aim of the game is to score goals by getting the ball into the other team’s net, or the team with the most goals at the end of the game wins.

  
  

• The aim of the game is to score goals by getting the ball into the other team’s net, and the team with the most goals at the end of the game wins.

• The aim of the game is to score goals by getting the ball into the other team’s net. And the team with the most goals at the end of the game wins.

• No change needed

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Players can score a goal from anywhere on the field, a goal cannot be scored from an indirect free kick.

• Players can score a goal from anywhere on the field, but a goal cannot be scored from an indirect free kick.

• Players can score a goal from anywhere on the field a goal cannot be scored from an indirect free kick.

• Players can score a goal from anywhere on the field because a goal cannot be scored from an indirect free kick.

• No change is needed

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He explained that water is heated by the sun, evaporates up into the air, condenses into drops, and then fell back to the ground, pure, and free of contaminants.

• Change explained to has explained

• Change then to than

• Change fell to falls

• Delete the comma after ground

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Furthermore, this solar water purifier is cheaper than other water-purification devices because they are made with inexpensive and widely available materials.

• Delete the comma after Furthermore

• Change than to then

• Change they are to it is

• Change widely to wildly

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The diversity of environments’ on Earth presents design challenges that have put Gan and the other engineers to the test.

• Change diversity to divercity

• Delete the apostrophe after environments

• Change presents to presenting

• Change have to has

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The solar water purifier can filter salt water to make it drinkable, however, the salt left behind quickly builds up and hinders the process.

• Change can to could

• Change the comma after drinkable to a semicolon

• Change quickly to quick

• Change process to prosess

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Soon, drinkable water will be purified and accessible where it is needed, the future of solar purification looks bright.

• Delete the comma after Soon

• Change will be to will have been

• Change purified to purifying

• Change the comma after needed to a period

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