Correcting Run-Ons
The following run-on sentences are missing semicolons. Identify where a semicolon should be placed.
For help with this exercise, see section 21b of Focus on Reading and Writing.
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Many college students think that the physical education requirement should be abolished they would have more time for other subjects.
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Many students are already exempt from PE why do others have to take it?
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Students with physical disabilities, older students, part-time students, and pregnant students are usually exempt it would not be right to make them take physical education classes.
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As adults, these students can take care of their own exercise programs they can choose not to do any exercise.
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Many people think that a sound body makes a sound mind they do not want to abolish physical education.
Identify the subordinating conjunction that would best connect the ideas in each comma splice sentence.
For help with this exercise, see section 21b of Focus on Reading and Writing.
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Thomas Jefferson introduced pasta to this country, he brought a pasta-making machine from Italy.
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Pasta was already eaten in Italy, more people in the south than in the north ate it.
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A few Americans had heard of this unusual and exotic food, they had come from the British upper class.
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Marco Polo may have brought pasta to Italy from China, he took several trips there.
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Many scholars dispute this claim, they say that Marco Polo did not do all the things people claim he did.