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Editing Exercise for Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

Insert a comma or semicolon in the following blanks to create correctly punctuated sentences.

This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
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In 1972, Dartmouth College hired an anthropology instructor to head a new program in Native American Studies the man’s name was Michael Dorris. 
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Question 2.
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Dorris had lived on for a time on an Indian reservation most of his early years were spent in Louisville, Kentucky. 
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Question 3.
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One of his children had trouble learning so Dorris took him to many doctors. 
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Question 4.
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The doctors in New Hampshire could not diagnose his son’s problem the director of an Indian program on a South Dakota reservation recognized fetal alcohol syndrome. 
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Question 5.
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Dorris’s book about his son, The Broken Cord, sold over 75,000 copies the story has touched people across the country. 
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Question 6.
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Dorris and his future wife, writer Louise Erdrich, met at Dartmouth in the mid-1970s they had three children together. 
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Question 7.
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Erdrich was also a writer her first novel, Love Medicine, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1984. 
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Question 8.
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Dorris and Erdrick regularly edited and critiqued each other’s work and they actually began writing a novel together in 1988. 
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Question 9.
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The Crown of Columbus was a reflection on the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America it explored the discovery from the perspective of the native people. 
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Question 10.
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During the 1990s, Dorris’s life was beset by legal and personal difficulties Dorris took his own life on April 11, 1997. 
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