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TSI Writing: Fixing a Run-On Sentence 34 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
- 00:04
R c writing shmoop er's we've got another sentence for
- 00:07
you here Now we're focusing on fragments and peril is
- 00:10
um and subordination Yeah it's like a military things maybe
- 00:13
not All right i had to pull into the traffic
- 00:15
lane in order to see around the snow pile I
Full Transcript
- 00:18
was nearly hit by a truck All right Can i
- 00:20
buy a comma for two hundred here Well better a
- 00:24
run on sentence than a runaway truck But you were
- 00:27
never much fun only a comma in the conjunction and
- 00:31
keep the meaning intact while separating the ideas into two
- 00:33
independent clauses Right So it's d here pile comma and
- 00:37
i the two independent clauses run together without any punctuation
- 00:41
so we can't leave the sentence as is inserting a
- 00:44
comma like inbee would create a comma spice which isn't
- 00:47
grammatically correct either Finally inserting after it's like see you
- 00:52
do their messes with the syntax and sentence so it
- 00:55
doesn't quite make sense either The driver was nearly hit
- 00:57
by a truck before he pulled into the traffic lane
- 01:00
Oh yeah rough day all right that's it we're shmoop
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