Has anyone ever heard of the term coma splice? I sure have, because I accidentally do it all the time. A coma splice is when you separate two strong clauses you are joining by using a coma. Instead, you could use either a semicolon or simply make each clause its own sentence and use a period between them. Another problem that comes with having a coma splice error is a run-on sentence. I used to love to make run-on sentences and have a few comas in there to allow it to happen. Now, I have some pretty long sentences but none are nearly as bad as before I learned about coma splice. I really cannot believe that we have to blog two hundred and fifty words about one simple grammar rule and I really do not know how I am going to make the length requirement but I am going to give it my best shot and write as much as I possibly can about my subject, which is coma splicing. That was my example of a really long sentence; it was almost four lines long. Now after learning about coma splice, I would have simply made that long sentence into two or more sentences because it is easier that way. My new example would be as follows in the next few lines. I really cannot believe that we have to blog two hundred and fifty words about one simple grammar rule. I don’t know how I am going to make the length requirement, but I am going to give it my best shot. I would probably emit the last little bit and simply mention it before the sentences in my example.
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