Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 3 (30 MCQs)

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1. Another name for a fused sentence is a run-on sentence.
2. My cat Buster loves to nap on warm appliances when he sleeps on top of themicrowave oven, his tail swipes the glass door like a windshield wiper.
3. What is the difference between a comma splice and a fused sentence?
4. Sylvia shivered in her silk shirt, the difference in temperature between the hot road and the cold library was extreme.
5. Lorna did not last long in Mr. Wolcott's busy office, her long fingernails made accurate typing impossible, and her abrasive manner scared away too many potential clients.
6. Michelle is terrified of spiders, so when she found one in the bathroom, she panicked, refusing to shower for three days to use the restroom, she drove to her neighborhoodgas station.
7. Two sentences that are smooshed together with a comma in the middle is called .....
8. Which is a correct way to fix the following run on sentence?We bought a hammer we bought nails.
9. Cindy's mumbling often gets her in trouble just the other day, her stylistmisunderstood Cindy's instructions and gave her a pixie cut after Cindy asked him totrim the ends.
10. Because his glasses were so thick, Quincy refused to get contacts, he worried that equally thick contact lenses would make him look like a bug-eyed space alien.
11. The barn was very large it smelled of hay and horses.
12. WHAT'S WRONG?The student fell asleep in class, everyone thought this was rude behavior.
13. The old dog that was last seen limping down Main Street at nine o'clock last night.
14. Adding a period between to independent clauses is one way to correct a run-on sentence.
15. Susan ducked down when she saw Mr. Hayden, her English teacher, walk into Tito's Taco Palace, unfortunately, a burrito wasn't big enough to hide behind, so poor Susan had to explain why she had missed his class again.
16. I went to the store to get eggs while I was there, I saw my teacher.
17. From his post in the mountains, Andy Bernard can see everyone entering and leaving the town, he uses flares to communicate with the other lookouts.
18. My cat Buster is always tipping over the garbage can then he searches through the trash for milk jug caps, which he bats around the floor, the feline version of playing ice hockey.
19. Madison believed that the best job in the universe would be to work as a crewmember on the starship Enterprise since this job existed only on television, Madisonsettled for clerking at a neighborhood comic book store that sold Star Trekmemorabilia.
20. None of the parents like the movie, it was full of violence.
21. For two weeks, Todd refused to go to his accounting class because Professor Gastineau would not allow students to wear hats, under no circumstance would Todd allow anyone to see how badly the barber had butchered his hair.
22. A comma splice is created when a comma is placed where a period or semi-colon should go.
23. Susan ducked when she saw Professor Hayden walk into Tito's Taco Palace, unfortunately, a burrito was not big enough to hide behind, so poor Susan had to explain why she had missed class again.
24. Cassie has difficulties getting to her 8 a.m. Math class on time, she always watches too many late night movies and then hits the snooze button on her alarm once too often.
25. Alex does not care as much about comfort as he does about style he will wear, for example, a long sleeve shirt and a leather jacket in the middle of a Florida summer if they are the perfect complement to his new pair of khakis.
26. Which of the following choices is true about a complete sentence?
27. List the coordinating conjunctions
28. When Jim threw his back out while helping his wife Nancy move the sofa, he feared the treatment the doctor would recommend, a week's worth of bed rest during the nicest week in April would certainly wreck Jim's golf plans.
29. When Matt shaved his head, his mother worried that he had joined a cult the realreason for the bald head, however, was that Matt could get more attention andsympathy from girls who thought he was sick with a dread disease.
30. Claire considered cutting her psychology class to go to the golf course, however, she decided she could not afford to miss the review for the upcoming exam.