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Sentence Practice 3

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

This activity contains 5 questions.

Question 1.
The town's recycling bins are not being emptied often enough, this is resulting in an unsightly mess.
 
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Question 2.
The sanitation workers usually empty the bins every Monday, but by Friday they are overflowing again.

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

 
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Question 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.

 
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Question 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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