Comma splices and fused sentences: Main clauses without and, but, etc.

Revise the sentence to eliminate the comma splice or fused sentence. Then, compare your answer to the one provided.

This activity contains 10 questions.

In the 1960s some high schools were divided into academic and vocational tracks students who fell somewhere between the two categories were sometimes called traditional.

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The county has had difficulty completing the project, it has gotten bogged down because of a lack of supplies and workers.

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We never get around to serious business on Sundays until the middle of the afternoon we always take so long to read the Sunday paper.

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American music is popular throughout the world, everyone knows the big rock stars.

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Our neighbor is writing nasty letters to local real estate companies she is tired of receiving junk mail from them when she has no intention of selling her house.

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Professional style means a lot more than wearing a Rolex or driving a BMW it is achieving a total look of success.

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The Commodores, who started making music when they were students at Tuskegee Institute, still make Tuskegee their home, they feel a little Alabama town of eleven thousand protects their privacy and keeps them in touch with real life.

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Neither of the boys was old enough to drive both were only fifteen years old.

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The Republican presidential candidate has proposed new tax cuts in the hopes of influencing voters, so far this seems to be working.

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For many of the elderly, their homes have been their life-long sanctuaries from the pressures of the outside world, it is understandable why so many of them passionately resist moving into nursing homes.

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