Choose punctuation on SAT grammar questions by checking whether each side could stand alone as a sentence. Catch comma splices, run-ons, and fragments, including ones hidden in longer sentences.
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Two complete sentences can run together with nothing between them.
A sentence about a storm runs two sentences together with nothing between them. The demo finds where the first sentence ends, shows that the words on each side could stand alone, marks a comma there as a comma splice, and puts a semicolon in its place. Then it asks which mark can join two short sentences.
The storm knocked out the power we lit candles.
1Find the spot
2Test each side
3Pick what joins
You’ll leave with these skills
01Join two complete sentences with a period or a semicolon
02Join two sentences with a comma and “and,” “but,” or “so”
03Punctuate an introductory dependent clause
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