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TSI Writing: Fixing a Run-On Sentence 7 Views


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Description:

Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

I had to pull into the traffic lane in order to see around the snow pile I was nearly hit by a truck.


Transcript

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R c writing shmoop er's we've got another sentence for

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you here Now we're focusing on fragments and peril is

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um and subordination Yeah it's like a military things maybe

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not All right i had to pull into the traffic

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lane in order to see around the snow pile I

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was nearly hit by a truck All right Can i

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buy a comma for two hundred here Well better a

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run on sentence than a runaway truck But you were

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never much fun only a comma in the conjunction and

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keep the meaning intact while separating the ideas into two

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independent clauses Right So it's d here pile comma and

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i the two independent clauses run together without any punctuation

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so we can't leave the sentence as is inserting a

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comma like inbee would create a comma spice which isn't

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grammatically correct either Finally inserting after it's like see you

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do their messes with the syntax and sentence so it

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doesn't quite make sense either The driver was nearly hit

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by a truck before he pulled into the traffic lane

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Oh yeah rough day all right that's it we're shmoop

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