Directions: Read the sentence below. Then answer the questions that follow.
Orange juice, toast, and cereal might be a healthy breakfast, but Ricardo
always hits the snooze button on his alarm too many times all he can grab
is a stale pastry and soda.
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 two complete sentences together with absolutely no punctuation.
Either way you win a prize—but only the correct choice is a cool cyber prize!
|
|
|
