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Sentence Practice 2

Identify each sentence as containing a comma splice or no comma splice.

1 .       In 1966, the Surgeon General announced that cigarettes were harmful to health.  

 
 


2 .       Many smokers who heard the announcement now knew that the habit was deadly, their friends and families asked them to quit.  

 
 


3 .       Twenty years after the first announcement, smokers were told that they were also endangering everyone in their vicinity. 

 
 


4 .       As pressure to ban smoking in public places grew, some smokers fought back, they said that they had rights, too.  

 
 


5 .       In the new health-conscious climate, however, this cause was decidedly unpopular.  

 
 






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