English
Exercise 17

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Choose the best answer

 

1. I keep buying lottery tickets, I never win.

(a) sentence has a comma splice

(b) fused sentence

(c) run-on sentence

(d) sentence is correct

 

2. Sally will be going to the play if she can get an extra ticket, she will invite Craig.

(a) sentence has a comma splice

(b) fused sentence

(c) run-on sentence

(d) sentence is correct

 

3. Sally will be going to the play if she can get an extra ticket.

(a) sentence has a comma splice

(b) fused sentence

(c) run-on sentence

(d) sentence is correct

 

4. She can get an extra ticket, she will invite Craig.

(a) sentence has a comma splice

(b) fused sentence

(c) run-on sentence

(d) sentence is correct

 

5. I keep buying lottery tickets, but I never win because I am unlucky, and, therefore, I have decided to find other ways of investing my money, so perhaps I will look into stocks and bonds. 

(a) sentence has a comma splice

(b) fused sentence

(c) run-on sentence

(d) sentence is correct