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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.

A comma splice occurs when two complete sentences are incorrectly joined with just a comma. In the example above, no such comma exists. Ricardo always hits the snooze button on his alarm too many times is one sentence. All he can grab is a stale pastry and soda is the second sentence.

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

To fix the problem above, you could put a period after times and begin all with a capital A.

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