Run-Ons and Comma Splices Practice

Flobbledobbles are ridiculous creatures Ms. Diamond made up.

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They're from Ms. Diamond's home planet Flobbledobble, that's why she knows them so well.

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They found a portal to Earth in the closet of a classroom so that's where they're usually found.

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At night, they sneak in and steal any pencils they find on the floor of the classroom.

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They're harmless, though, and they just want to be helpful.

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They're not trying to steal, they just hate waste.

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• A semicolon would fix this sentence.

If they didn't pick up the pencils, all those pencils would go in the trash, and pencils don't grow on trees!

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Oh wait--pencils do grow on trees! We have to save the Flobbledobbles yet they can save our trees!

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• The word "yet" doesn't belong there. Choose a different connecting word (coordinating conjunction)

Then maybe the Flobbledobbles will have time for other projects, they've been really curious about Rubik's cubes.

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If you got all 10 questions correct, you can go check your draft for complete sentences!

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