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"Halla has a flashlight she is carrying a box".
It is a comma splice or run-on sentece?
I have to rewrite this as a compund sentence, but I don't know how to do it.
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- ?Lv 59 years agoFavorite Answer
This is a run-on sentence. A run-on is where you have little or no punctuation (for pauses), and the sentence is somewhat lengthy. A comma splice is when you are using a comma to separate two independent clauses (two lines that could be their own sentences), when they should be made into a compound sentence or separated by a period. For example: I don't want to go walking right now, it looks like it's going to rain. The correct way to write it would be: I don't want to go walking right now because it looks like it's going to rain. The two clauses are now connected.
A compound sentence is composed of at least two independent clauses. One way to make a compound sentence is to use conjuctions (for, and, nor, but, etc). If you break down this statement, you can see two simple sentences:
Halla has a flashlight.
She is carrying a box.
If you want to make it one compound sentence, write it like this: Halla has a flashlight and is carrying a box.
Source(s): I love English - Anonymous9 years ago
GASP! RUN-ON!!!! haha Halla has a flashlight and is carrying a box.? I hope that's right Good Luck!