This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Sentence Mechanics > Comma Splices And Fused Sentences – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 4 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I went to the store to get eggs while I was there, I saw my teacher. A) Comma Splice. B) Fused Sentence. C) Fragment. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fused Sentence. 2. 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. A) Comma Splice. B) Run-on (Fused). C) Complete Sentence. D) Sentence Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma Splice. 3. 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. A) Can, then. B) Can, but then. C) Can, and then. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Can, and then. 4. 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. A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma splice. 5. None of the parents like the movie, it was full of violence. A) Complete sentence. B) Fragment. C) Comma Splice. D) Fused sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comma Splice. 6. 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. A) Hats under. B) Hats, and under. C) Hats, therefore under. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hats, and under. 7. A comma splice is created when a comma is placed where a period or semi-colon should go. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. 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. A) Palace unfortunately. B) Palace; Unfortunately. C) Palace. Unfortunately. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Palace. Unfortunately. 9. 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. A) Time, for she. B) Time, because she. C) Time she. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time, for she. 10. 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. A) Style, he. B) Style, but he. C) Style; he. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Style; he. 11. Which of the following choices is true about a complete sentence? A) A complete sentence contains a complete thought. B) A complete sentence contains no capital letters. C) A complete sentence contains no predicate. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A complete sentence contains a complete thought. 12. List the coordinating conjunctions A) For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So. B) Therefore, Although, Moreover, Otherwise, For, So. C) For, And, Not, Because, Otherwise, For, Somewhat. D) Forward, Although, Nonetheless, But, Or, Somehow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So. 13. 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. A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma splice. 14. 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. A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fused sentence. 15. 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. A) Comma Splice / Fused Sentence. B) Correct. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma Splice / Fused Sentence. 16. Because his glasses were so thick, Quincy refused to get contacts, he worried thatequally thick contact lenses would make him look like a bug-eyed space alien. A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma splice. 17. Slouched in his seat, Cory tried to pay attention to the grammar lecture the only problem was that NBA statistics and images of pretty women in tight miniskirts were more interesting than subordinate clauses and participle phrases. A) Lecture, the. B) Lecture, however the. C) Lecture. The. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lecture. The. 18. Rosalie Hale told the travel agents she wanted to fly around the world in a hot air balloon, they just rolled their eyes and laughed at her. A) Comma Splice. B) Run-on (Fused). C) Complete Sentence. D) Sentence Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma Splice. 19. When a person studies for an exam and feels prepared. A) Complete sentence. B) Fragment. C) Comma Splice. D) Fused sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fragment. 20. Clarence couldn't believe that the hardware store was selling garden rakes for only $ 1.99 each when he brought home twenty of them, his wife Marie just shook her head and squeezed them into a garage stuffed full of her husband's other "good buys." A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fused sentence. 21. Jake's day revolves around sugar, he anticipates the pastry he will choose for breakfast, the candy bar he will eat for lunch, and the ice cream he will have as dinner. A) Sugar he. B) Sugar, for he. C) Sugar, but he. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sugar, for he. 22. For two weeks, Todd refused to go to his accounting class because Professor Channing would not allow students to wear hats in class, under no circumstance would Todd allow anyone to see the butcher job his stylist had done to his hair. A) Class under. B) Class, and under. C) Class, therefore under. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Class, and under. 23. Luckily, no one was hurt. A) Complete sentence. B) Fragment. C) Comma Splice. D) Fused sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complete sentence. 24. Mike loves to play computer games, especially Tomb Raider, he imagines that all of the villains are his problems, and he gets great satisfaction blasting them to bits. A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma splice. 25. Which sentence is free of a comma splice? A) The teacher explained the concept, the students understood immediately. B) We could go to the museum, or we could go to the aquarium. C) It's nearly time to leave, pack your bags. D) She didn't see the stop sign, she kept driving. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We could go to the museum, or we could go to the aquarium. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesComma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 1Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 2Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 3Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 5Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 6Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 7Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 8Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 9Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books