Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 4 (25 MCQs)

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1. I went to the store to get eggs while I was there, I saw my teacher.
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.
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.
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.
5. None of the parents like the movie, it was full of violence.
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.
7. A comma splice is created when a comma is placed where a period or semi-colon should go.
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.
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.
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.
11. Which of the following choices is true about a complete sentence?
12. List the coordinating conjunctions
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
19. When a person studies for an exam and feels prepared.
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."
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.
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.
23. Luckily, no one was hurt.
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.
25. Which sentence is free of a comma splice?