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Improve Your Writing Table of Contents
Run-on Sentences Exercise.
A. Why improve your understanding of grammar and punctuation?
In the following exercise, you will be presented with a series of sentences. Put a tick by the run-on sentences.
B. Punctuation Marks C. Common Confusions
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D. Using quoted material. E. Other pitfalls and problems
a)
Greece is a fantastic country it has lovely people and great food.
b)
Despite a long flight, arriving in Athens is always a good feeling.
c)
She gave me a withering stare I was really scared.
d)
There is nothing better for a cold than a hot whisky and a big box of chocolates.
a)
The chest contained large amounts of gold, rubies, saphires and other precious stones.
b)
She ran out of the room the shadows in the corner had scared her.
c)
I will never fly again it is far too polluting.
d)
She always recycles her bottles they are collected twice a month.
a)
I hate kippers the smell puts me off.
b)
Bill rushed to his mate's house there was cold beer in the fridge.
c)
She never walks anywhere she is really lazy.
d)
Tim loves jelly strawberry is his favourite flavour.
a)
The meal was a huge success despite his lack of skill in the kitchen.
b)
The meal was a disaster he is useless in the kitchen.
c)
Given his ineptitude with a food mixer, the meal was a surprising success.
d)
I really enjoyed the smoked kippers that he had prepared the night before.
a)
'Give me that pencil it's mine.'
b)
She found the wallet he found the money.
c)
Pirates sailed the seas during the warmer months.
d)
Leaving the house early, Bill found the roads empty.
a)
Tim left his job because he could not stand his boss.
b)
Tim left his job he could not stand his boss.
c)
Tim left his job; he could not stand his boss.
d)
Tim left his job, as he could not stand his boss.
a)
She threw down the bottle she hates wine anyway.
b)
I love wine the French reds are definitely the best.
c)
Tim prefers a nice pint of bitter, but sometimes likes a lager on warm days.
d)
She uncorked the new bottle that she had bought in France the previous summer.
a)
Tim rushed out of the house; he desperately needed another pint of milk.
b)
Tim rushed out of the house he desperately needed another pint of milk.
c)
Tim rushed out of the house because he desperately needed another pint of milk.
d)
Tim rushed out of the house, as he desperately needed another pint of milk.
F. Style G. Exercises 1. Using the Colon to Improve Style 2. Using the colon. 3. Using the semicolon. 4. Using the comma 1.
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5. Using the comma 2. 6. The comma splice. 7. Separating Clauses 8. Exercise about conjunctions. 9. Exercise using the hyphen.
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10. Contracted words 11. Using the apostrophe 1. 12. Using the apostrophe 2. 13. Lists. 14. Punctuation marks exercise. 15. Dangling participles exercise.
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16. Who's or Whose? 17. It's or Its? 18. There or Their or They're? 19. To or Too or Two? 20. Who or Whom? 21. I or me?
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22. Less or Fewer? 23. Like or As? 24. Split Infinitives. 25. Verb/Subject Agreement. 26. Using the subjunctive. 27. Using Numbers. 28. Punctuation of embedded quotations 1.
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29. Punctuation of embedded quotations. 2 30. Correcting quotes. 31. Confusable words 1. 32. Confusable Words 2. 33. Confusable words 3.
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34. Consistency of tense. 35. Common Mistakes. 36. Run-on Sentences Exercise. 37. Pleonasm Exercise. 38. Straying Off The Point Exercise.
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Find out more about run-on sentences. See a list of other grammar exercises.