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Sentence Practice 2

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

This activity contains 5 questions.

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

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

 
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Question 3.
Twenty years after the first announcement, smokers were told that they were also endangering everyone in their vicinity.
 
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Question 4.
As pressure to ban smoking in public places grew, some smokers fought back, they said that they had rights, too.

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

 
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