Fixing Run-On Sentences

The show begins at 7:30 make sure you're there before 7:15.

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• 7:30, make
• 7:30. Make
• 7:30, but

Which set of sentences avoids a run-on sentence?

• I run for a living I enjoy looking at the scenery.

• I run for a living. I enjoy looking at the scenery.

Which is NOT an acceptable way to fix the following sentence:
Timothy has been late to school everyday, however he has yet to serve a detention after school.  

• everyday.  However
• everyday; however, 
• everyday.  However, 

Which is NOT an acceptable way to fix the following sentence:
Since four inches have fallen, school has been closed the children are all outside having a snowball fight. 

• closed. The
• closed; the
• closed, but
• closed, and 

Which of the following sentences has a comma splice?

• Bernice was secretly a superhero, she couldn't tell anyone at school.

• Damon was Bernice's archival, but he was also her partner in math class.

• Damon was a super villain, for he loved nothing more than plotting mayhem.

• Damon and Bernice had to pretend to get along at school so that no one would guess their secret identities.

The airport is about to shut down because of the snow and if the plane doesn't land soon it will have to go on to Boston.

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• snow, and
• snow; and
• snow. And

If needed, correct this sentence.

We are the last class for lunch sometimes they run out of chicken.

• We are the last class for lunch, sometimes they run out of chicken.

• We are the last class for lunch; sometimes they run out of chicken.

• We are the last class for lunch. Sometimes they run out of chicken.

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The head of state and the religious leader were often the same person all power rested in one ruler.

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• person, all
• person; and all
• person, and

Refer to the section in red:
When I got there, I had to wait forever to see him when he finally examined my teeth, he   found four cavities.

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• him. When
• him, when
• him and when

Fighting the urge to crawl under her desk, Adriana looked at the clock, there was still a half hour left of class, more than enough time to do her poorly prepared, ten-minute speech.

• clock there

• clock; there

• clock, so there

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