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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Punctuation: Correcting the Comma Splice (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation, including correcting the comma splice.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Avoiding Comma Splices

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An interactive online quiz teaching about and correcting the use of comma splices in writing. A good tool for students to improve their writing skills.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Avoiding Comma Splices 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Another interactive online quiz teaching about and correcting the use of comma splices in writing. A good tool for students to improve their writing skills.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Run Ons, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice identifying run-on sentences, comma splices, and fused sentences.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Comma Splice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the misuse of commas by using them to connect two independent clauses, resulting in a comma splice. It offers examples and suggestions for correcting them. It also provides exceptions to the rule with examples.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Correcting Run on Sentences and Comma Splices

For Students 9th - 10th
A twelve-slide presentation explaining run-on sentences and comma splices and providing five solutions to correcting these sentence errors.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 2: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Recognize comma splices and fused sentences by clicking on the error in 20 sentences.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 3: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Recognize comma splices and fused sentences by clicking on the error in 20 sentences.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Comma Splice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a comma splice in the context of a sentence.
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Avoiding Comma Splices and Run Ons

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An informational page outlining the definitions and uses of comma splices, run-on sentences, and fused sentences. A great resource for students struggling with these in their writing.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Antonyms and Comma Splices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For Dickens' opening to his Tale of Two Cities, he uses one of the longest series of comma splices in the history of literature. Dickens seemingly did this for stylistic effect. In this lesson, students create their own Dickens-like...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Instruction Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on grammar and writing focuses on clauses including dependent and independent clauses and run-on and comma splice sentences. It features links to "Purdue OWL: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses," "Purdue OWL:...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comma Splices and Run Ons: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over comma splices and run-ons and discusses how to recognize them. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Comma Splices and Run-ons."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Avoiding Run on Sentences and Comma Splices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to correct a run-on sentence or a comma splice.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comma Splices and Run Ons

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson goes over comma splices and run-ons and discusses how to recognize them.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Rules for Fixing Comma Splices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site targets comma splices and fused sentences. It provides information on how to fix them using conjunctions (both coordinating and subordinating) and puntuation.
Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 4: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Choose the best way to correct sentences errors identified in 20 sentences.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 5: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Choose the best way to correct sentences errors identified in 20 sentences.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Presentations: Fragments, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A PowerPoint slide explaining common sentence errors and how to correct them. Questions that may be found on standardized tests are included.
Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 1: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive location/game that focuses on key elements of writing such as commas and their relationship with fused sentences.
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Other

Comma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writing lab tutorial for using the comma in English punctuation.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Run on Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on run-on sentences and comma splices and solutions to fix them. It offers a YouTube video that defines and gives specific methods to correct run-on sentences and a PDF that reviews three solutions to run-ons and...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Crucible: Fragments and Run on Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on fragments and run-on sentences including explaining dependent and independent clauses, fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and coordinating conjunctions. It provides examples and links to quizzes.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Composition:types of Writing: Sentence Errors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on sentence errors like fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and fused sentences. It expains these errors, provides examples, and offers an interactive practice activity.

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