Item 19
Directions: Read the item below. Then answer the questions that follow.
Clarence could not believe that the hardware store was selling garden rakes
for only $1.99 each when he brought home twenty of them, his wife Marie
just shook her head and squeezed them into a garage stuffed full of her
husband's other "good buys."
Is this item 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 item 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!
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