ACT Aspire English: Correcting Comma Splices with Transition Words

one seven years and barren because of working moms out

a game plan on living her there at the time

i was too young to realise the effect this would

have on my life Now i know that it shaped

my childhood and made me the person i am today

Alright so something clearly awkward going on there and notice

that we fixed the what affect his affect is a

verb in effect is a noun We just fixed it

for you as we read through there A for free

no extra charge That's the value you get it shmoop

Okay well let's think about this as it's written This

sentence is what's known as a comma slice Think of

a comet slices Ah horrible science experiment frank Instant ian

lee gone wrong It contains two complete thoughts stuck together

with a comma like a cat dog Okay maybe not

like cat dog one count two pairs of legs So

that might be a little hard on there Anyway The

best choice avoids the dreaded comma slice because it adds

the conjunction but one tea to connect the two thoughts

right So be is the right answer to read at

the time i was too young to realise the effect

that this would have on my life But now i

know that it shaped my childhood Yeah gotta so that's

it mork connector words won't necessarily for fix this place

They'll just make things messier semi colons like here won't

help either There's no use for semi colon before a

dependent clause and noticed the but there So it's not

a c or d just be And yet we're not 00:01:43.723 --> [endTime] poor shmoop