Anna writes:
I just got a B- on my first assignment in my English Composition class. Apparently I made some grammatical mistakes, and I don't even know what some of them are. Here is an example of a sentence:
Maria noticed that it was getting late, she just wanted to go home.
My teacher wrote splice in red pen. What does that mean?A splice is the intertwining of two things, such as wires or genes (see poster, above). Your teacher was pointing out a comma splice, which happened when you used a comma to connect two independent clauses. The problem is that commas are used for separating, not uniting. Since each independent clause contains a subject and a predicate, you can think of them as two sentences. The good news is that there are several easy ways to avoid a comma splice.
Quick fixes:
- The simplest solution is to write two separate sentences. Maria noticed that it was getting late. She just wanted to go home.
- You can join independent clauses with a comma if one clause begins with a conjunction. Maria noticed that it was getting late, and she just wanted to go home. Once Maria noticed that it was getting late, she just wanted to go home.
- You can join independent clauses with a semicolon to indicate that they are closely related. Maria noticed that it was getting late; she just wanted to go home.
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