Practice #1
Correcting Run-on Sentences
Correct the following run-on sentences by creating separate sentences, using a semicolon or using a conjunction such as and, or, nor, but, yet, so, since, or for.
1. The World Trade Center opened for business in 1970 it has 50,000 workers and 70,000 visitors everyday.
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2. It was built with 200,000 tons of steel and 425,000 cubic yards of concrete there are parking spaces for 2,000 cars underneath.
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3. At noon on February 26, 1993, everything at the World Trade Center was normal things changed very quickly.
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4. At 12:18, an explosion ripped through the underground garage 6 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured.
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5. The electricity plant was damaged all of the 99 elevators in each of the Twin Towers stopped.
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6. The rescue workers had to search 110 floors and 99 elevators in each tower passengers weren't released from the last elevator until 11:25 that night.
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7. Employees could not go into the buildings for more than a month businesses had to use temporary offices all over New York it was a terrible situation.
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8. The bomb was made of common chemicals used in crop fertilizer in 1999 three fertilizer companies were cleared by the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of any liability for the bombing.
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9. It took engineers two years to completely reconstruct the damaged areas the parking lot underneath the building suffered the most damage.
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10. The engineers discovered that a bomb placed next to one of the tower's columns was not sufficient to endanger the tower the architects and structural engineers who built the towers originally had built in enough redundancies to avoid disaster in such cases.
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