Sentence Problems 1

Choose the correct sentence.

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Identify the one sentence which is not a comma splice, run-on, or fragment.
1. The tall man who is wearing the light blue jeans and yellow windbreaker jacket.
2. Under the small wooden table in the corner of the room.
3. Is she?
4. Although there were many people around me at all times, but I never felt more alone than when I lived in a large city.
Identify the one sentence which is not a comma splice, run-on, or fragment.
1. Unless the plane is late, or we are delayed because of heavy traffic on the way to the airport.
2. A paragraph needs good supporting sentences which help explain the topic and controlling idea.
3. The picture of my grandmother which now hangs above the fireplace.
4. The pedestrian didn't have a chance to escape being hit by the car the accident happened so quickly.
Identify the one sentence which is not a comma splice, run-on, or fragment.
1. Although ice hockey is the most popular sport in Canada, but it is not the country's official national sport.
2. Worrying about your child's safety and well-being, no matter how old they are, is a natural part of parenthood.
3. Wrote several highly successful novels, one of which became the basis for a movie.
4. We don't have very much time to complete this project let's get started right away.
Identify the one sentence which is not a comma splice, run-on, or fragment.
1. I liked the food very much we ate it at the restaurant last night.
2. Stepping forward shyly, the small boy.
3. In order to stimulate economic growth, the government should provide more money to new businesses.
4. She edited her paragraph for grammar mistakes, the professor found several nevertheless.
Identify the one sentence which is not a comma splice, run-on, or fragment.
1. I wasn't really interested in the movie, I continued watching it anyway.
2. Are they?
3. I wasn't able to go to the office today I have a bad cold.
4. Capital punishment is an issue which nobody has neutral feelings about, people are either in favour of it or against it.
Identify the one sentence which is not a comma splice, run-on, or fragment.
1. The line of customers hoping to buy the latest software products stretched to the store entrance and beyond.
2. She left her purse on the chair when she got back, it was gone.
3. I have seen this movie a couple of times, I still enjoy watching it.
4. I don't think he is really sick, he just wants to have a day off.
Identify the one sentence which is not a comma splice, run-on, or fragment.
1. Having spent a lot of time and effort on a project that my supervisor eventually rejected.
2. With regard to the proposed business plan, which obviously took a lot of time to prepare.
3. It must.
4. Only half of the class handed in the homework assignment it was due yesterday.
Identify the one sentence which is not a comma splice, run-on, or fragment.
1. Imagine for a moment technical advances over the next twenty years, they will greatly impact our way of living.
2. The skills which one needs to be a successful lawyer, he has them all.
3. Exhausted from hiking for so long, they fell asleep in the shade of an old elm tree.
4. My friend promised to help me get a job interview with that company he has been working there for several months.
Identify the one sentence which is not a comma splice, run-on, or fragment.
1. Feeling tired after the match in which our team was defeated by our closest rival.
2. During our recent visit to Toronto, we watched the Blue Jays play in the Skydome.
3. Bruce and Lori noticed that the little girl was crying, they stopped to see what was wrong.
4. Many people had great difficulty getting to work this morning, because of the overnight snow storm roads were like sheets of ice.
Identify the one sentence which is not a comma splice, run-on, or fragment.
1. Many single parents are able to bring their children to the workplace daycare centres are provided by their employers.
2. Despite losing 6-3, the team had played well and received a thunderous cheer from the appreciative fans in attendance.
3. In order to be successful at university, excellent study habits and notetaking skills plus a willingness to learn new things.
4. Even though my old shoes look bad, but they are more comfortable than my new ones.