20-4 Run-on sentences.
I took quiz.
1 No permanent work is available, moreover, the money earned by picking crops is not enough to feed the family. his sentence improperly joins two independent clauses with commas and the conjunctive adverb moreover. To fix the problem, the writer could change the comma before moreover to a semicolon.
2. Union organizers have talked to the field workers about organizing and striking, and although Tom, the oldest Joad son, has listened to them, he has not yet joined them.
Its two independent clauses are correctly joined with a comma and the coordinating conjunction and although.
4He spends all his daylight hours alone he has lots of time to think about his family's situation.
it connects two independent clauses with no punctuation. To fix the problem, the writer could add a comma and the coordinating conjunction so
6 As he prepares to leave, his mother expresses her worries, she asks him how she will know where he is
is sentence is a run-on known as a comma splice; it consists of two independent clauses (his mother expresses her worries and she asks him . . .)
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