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Sentence
Errors
Comma
Splice
Results when two independent
sentences are joined solely by a comma:
Incorrect:
He is always boasting, no one seems to mind.
Correct: He is always boasting; no one seems to mind.
He is always boasting, but no one seems to mind.
Incorrect:
Ted spoke, however, no one listened.
Correct: Ted spoke; however, no one listened.
Ted spoke. No one, however, listened.
Run-on
Sentence
Is really two sentences
without any punctuation or conjunction between them, is identical to the
comma splice but without the comma.
Incorrect:
He is always boasting no one seems to mind.
Correct: He is always boasting; no one seems to mind.
He is always boasting, but no one seems to mind. |
