This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Sentence Mechanics > Comma Splices And Fused Sentences – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 6 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Professor Britton was grading papers at her desk, her students were slaving over their in-class compositions, sighing heavily and flipping through their dictionaries for the correct spellings of words. A) Desk her. B) Desk while her. C) Desk, moreover, her. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Desk, moreover, her. 2. Directions:Find the fragment. A) As they talked. B) They were walking down the hall to go to class. C) The teacher continued talking about the book. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) As they talked. 3. Always use a comma before the coordinating conjunction when connecting two independent clauses. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Ingie looked at his wife's collection of cookbooks and sighed, although there were thousands of recipes for delicious meals, he knew that Valerie would want to order another pepperoni and mushroom pizza for dinner. A) Sighed although. B) Sighed. Although. C) Sighed; Although. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sighed; Although. 5. Diamonds are one of the hardest materials known to man they are very beautiful. A) Complete sentence. B) Fragment. C) Comma Splice. D) Fused sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fused sentence. 6. Fix this:If you have a personal electronic device, please turn it off you don't want to get in trouble with administration. A) Off, because you. B) Off, you. C) NO change needed. It is correct. D) Off. You. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Off. You. 7. Jeremiah likes to put peanut butter on his pancakes instead of syrup, the smell is appealing, but I wouldn't want to eat anything so sticky that early in the morning. A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma splice. 8. Cindy's mumbling often gets her in trouble just the other day, in fact, her stylist misunderstood Cindy's instructions and dyed her hair blue after Cindy asked him to trim the ends. A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fused sentence. 9. To determine if a clause can stand on its own, you can ask the question: "Is it true that ..... ?" A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. Orange juice, toast, and cereal might be a healthy breakfast, but Lucy always hitsthe snooze button on her alarm too many times all she can grab is a stale pastry andsoda. A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fused sentence. 11. Louise is a real worrier when she leaves the house she is certain that she left the stove on, and when she comes home, she's afraid she forgot to lock her classroom door. A) A. comma splice. B) B. fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. fused sentence. 12. What is the definition of a run-on sentence? A) Two sentences with punctuation. B) Two sentences without any punctuation. C) Two sentences with commas in the wrong place. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two sentences without any punctuation. 13. Ralph needs to find either his skis or his snowboard before his winter vacation. A) Add a comma. B) Do not add a comma. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do not add a comma. 14. Emma is a vegan therefore she does not eat animal products. A) Fused Sentence. B) Comma Splice. C) Complete Sentence. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fused Sentence. 15. After the thunderstorm, Teresa splashed through the puddles left on the street, she enjoyed the cool rainwater on her hot feet A) Street she. B) Street, because she. C) Street, for she. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Street, for she. 16. What is this categorized as?The boy accidentally knocked over the girls books. Then picked up the girls books. A) Run-on. B) Fragment. C) Comma splice. D) No error. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fragment. 17. I cannot help you. Unless you cooperate with me. A) Complete sentence. B) Fragment. C) Comma Splice. D) Fused sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fragment. 18. Which best describes the following:Manuel searched for his cell phone charger he didn't know it was in his backpack. A) Sentence fragment. B) Run-on sentence. C) Comma splice. D) Complete thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Run-on sentence. 19. Josie, Don's Cairn terrier, will bark at anything that moves, squirrels, wind blown leaves, passing cars, and her own shadow will start her yapping. A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma splice. 20. Richard squeezed, thumped, and shook the empty shampoo bottle, hoping for a few drops to wash his dirty hair, since the bottle was completely empty, Richard worked up a lather with a few sprinkles of bathroom cleanser instead. A) Hair since. B) Hair; since. C) Hair, consequently, since. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hair, consequently, since. 21. Should be able to visit. A) Correct. B) Comma Splice. C) Fragment. D) Fused. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fragment. 22. During Math class, Mary kept chatting with her neighbor Jane because her behavior waskeeping Jane from understanding the lecture, Jane moved to another desk. A) Comma splice. B) Fused sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fused sentence. 23. Fragment or sentence?Susie watched Netflix. A) Fragment. B) Sentence. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sentence. 24. Since you left, however, I am sad. A) Complete sentence. B) Fragment. C) Comma Splice. D) Fused sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complete sentence. 25. Fix this:I play softball my sister plays volleyball. A) Correct. B) I play softball, my sister plays volleyball. C) I play softball, but my sister plays volleyball. D) I play softball, or my sister plays volleyball. 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