Directions: Read the sentence below. Then answer the questions that follow.
At the campus coffee cart, Gini makes the best drinks her sweet cream latte,
a blend of vanilla ice cream and espresso, will put on the pounds, but its
cool, smooth taste is worth a trip to the gym.
Is this sentence a comma splice? If you believe it is a comma splice, use your mouse to choose the left door below. A comma splice, remember, is two complete sentences incorrectly joined with a comma.
Or is the sentence a fused sentence? If you believe it is a fused sentence, then use your mouse to choose the right door. A fused sentence occurs when a writer incorrectly runs together two complete sentences with absolutely no punctuation.
Either way you win a prize—but only the correct choice is a cool cyber prize!
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