Quick Help: Editing for comma splices and fused sentences
Quick Help: Editing for comma splices and fused sentences
Editing for comma splices and fused sentences
If you find no punctuation between two of your independent clauses—groups of words that can stand alone as sentences—you have identified a fused sentence. If you find two such clauses joined only by a comma, you have identified a comma splice. Revise comma splices and fused sentences with one of these methods.