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Recognizing Run-Ons

The following sentences may be run-ons. If the sentence is a run-on, identify it as a comma splice or fused sentence. (If the sentence is not a run-on, select “correct sentence.”)

For help with this exercise, see section 21a of Focus on Reading and Writing.

  1. Question

    Not everyone has to travel to get to work in fact more and more people are working from home.

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  2. Question

    For a long time, having a good job meant having to commute the only people who worked at their houses were homemakers and stay-at-home parents.

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  3. Question

    Now computers and fax machines make working at home a possibility, these machines connect workers to company offices.

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  4. Question

    Companies save money when employees work at home, they minimize real estate costs.

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  5. Question

    Employees, too, enjoy some benefits from working at home.

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Recognizing Run-Ons 2

The following sentences may be run-ons. If the sentence is a run-on, identify it as a comma splice or fused sentence. (If the sentence is not a run-on, select “correct sentence.”)

For help with this exercise, see section 21a of Focus on Reading and Writing.

  1. Question

    The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s saw the development of many African American artists and writers the achievements of that time were not limited to the arts.

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  2. Question

    The New York Renaissance was an African American basketball team formed in Harlem, the team played its first game in November 1923.

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  3. Question

    The New York Renaissance was named after the Harlem ballroom where the team played its games the ballroom’s owner would not let them play there otherwise.

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  4. Question

    The team won its first game, its record that year was 15–7.

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  5. Question

    The “Rens” soon became popular and were playing more than one hundred games a season, the players were often turned away by prejudiced hotel owners and slept on the team bus.

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