Sentence-Structure Problems

Correct the comma splices and fused sentences below.

I like cats I hate dogs.

(a)  

Correct the comma splices and fused sentences below.

I studied hard this semester I earned good grades.

(a)  

Correct the comma splices and fused sentences below.

My father is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, he also heads the Warrant Committee.

(a)  

Correct the comma splices and fused sentences below.

Entrepreneurship is the study of small business college students are embracing it enthusiastically.

(a)  

Correct the comma splices and fused sentences below.

Your ice cream will melt, you should eat it quickly.

(a)  

Add punctuation and/or coordinating conjunctions to fix all of the comma splices and fused sentences. Remember to pick the coordinating conjunctions and punctuation that adds the correct meaning to your sentences.

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer a white December storm had whirled over June, ice glazed the ripe apples drifts crushed the blowing roses.

(a)  

There [were] things which he stretched, mainly he told the truth.

(a)  

It is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth, it is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind.

(a)  

Do the following groups of words represent a sentence or a fragment?

Because of my love for children.

• sentence

• fragment

Unless Jan completes the project, she will fail the class.

• sentence

• fragment