FIVE WAYS TO CORRECT RUN-ON SENTENCES 1. PERIOD AND CAPITAL LETTER 2. COMMA AND FANBOYS CONJUCTION 3. SEMICOLON 4. SEMICOLON AND JOINING WORD 5. DEPENDANT WORD In each sentence underline the spot where each run-on or comma splice

Raen, I'm going to answer quickly before Clive does. You never NEED to use a semicolon. You can ALWAYS use a period and start the new sentence with a capital letter instead of joining them with a semi-colon. The semi-colon joins two

Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.

Hi, I would really appreciate anyone who could check over these sentences to ensure all the punctuation is correct. This is an assignment for a correspondence course I'm taking, and I think I have them mostly right but I'd like to be sure.

Okay then: Here are my comments. 1. Start with a capital letter. You hae a comma splice- you joined two complete thoughts with a comma. You need either a period or a semicolon (Sorry Clive.) 2. Start with a capital letter. The way it's

Semicolon use A semicolon following an independent clause signals that what follows is also an independent clause whose meaning is of equal importance to the first. Joining two clauses with a semicolon alone is appropriate only when the clauses

Sorry, but I have to ask: do you feel there's anything wrong with that "sentence" you've just posted? Michael West Melbourne, Australia Er .. not especially, no. Fire away! Joining two independent clauses with a comma is a defect

I should think that depends upon one's style manual, though. I learned in high school that complete sentences *should* be capitalized, but I recently read here that it is either no longer the rule and that it was an imaginary rule in the old

Hi, If my child was marked down because she used a capital letter for words in a spelling test, I’d be angry with the teacher. When I went to school, my spelling exercises tested for spelling not style. However, if your child is a high school