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Comma splices
Sentence Practice 3

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

1 .       The town's recycling bins are not being emptied often enough, this is resulting in an unsightly mess. 

 
 


2 .       The sanitation workers usually empty the bins every Monday, but by Friday they are overflowing again.  

 
 


3 .       The problem is especially serious during the summer months, a lot of tourists use the recycling bins to dispose of their trash.  

 
 


4 .       The town has been thinking of locking the gates to the recycling area, people could enter it only when an attendant is on duty.  

 
 


5 .       Having an attendant on duty would keep the tourists from dumping their trash in the recycling bins, but we're not sure what they'd do with it instead.  

 
 






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