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Madison believed that the best job in the universe would be to work as a crew member on the starship Enterprise since this job existed only on television, Madison settled for clerking at a neighborhood comic book store that sold Star Trek memorabilia.

A comma splice occurs when two complete sentences are incorrectly joined with just a comma. In the example above, no such comma exists. Madison believed that the best job in the universe would be to work as a crew member on the starship Enterprise is one sentence. Since this job existed only on television, Madison settled … begins the second sentence.

Because there is only empty space between the two sentences, you should call this error a fused sentence.

To fix the problem above, you could put a period after Enterprise and begin since with a capital S.

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