Comma Splices And Fused Sentences Quiz 2 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🧠 Comma Splices And Fused Sentences – Quiz 2
1. Sherian will not allow her children to have a puppy, she is convinced that dogs are just big germs and refuses to follow one around with a sponge and bottle of bleach.
A) Puppy, for she .
B) Puppy she.
C) Puppy, but she.
D) None of above.
2. From his post in the mountains, Andy Bernard can see everyone entering and leaving the town, he uses flares to communicate with the other lookouts.
A) Sentence Fragment.
B) Comma Splice.
C) Run-on (Fused).
D) Complete Sentence.
3. Electricity is really an abstract concept, it can't be seen, felt, or smelled.
A) Comma Splice.
B) Complete sentence.
C) Fused sentence.
D) Fragment.
4. Josie, Don's Cairn terrier, will bark at anything that moves, squirrels, wind blown leaves, passing cars, and her own shadow will start her yapping.
A) Fused sentence.
B) Comma splice.
5. Rosalie Hale told the travel agents she wanted to fly around the world in a hot air balloon, they just rolled their eyes and laughed at her.
A) Sentence Fragment.
B) Run-on (Fused).
C) Comma Splice.
D) Complete Sentence.
6. What is this categorized as? The boy accidentally knocked over the girls books. Then picked up the girls books.
A) Comma splice.
B) No error.
C) Fragment.
D) Run-on.
7. Cassie has difficulties getting to her 8 a.m. Math class on time, she always watches too many late night movies and then hits the snooze button on her alarm once too often.
A) Time, for she.
B) Time, because she.
C) Time she.
D) None of above.
8. After the pitcher decided to walk toward the other dugout, the fans started booing.
A) Comma Splice.
B) Run-on (Fused).
C) Sentence Fragment.
D) Complete Sentence.
9. Which best describes the following:Looking at his watch, Vance realized he was going to be late.
A) Run-on sentence.
B) Complete thought.
C) Sentence fragment.
D) Comma splice.
10. Since you left, however, I am sad.
A) Fused sentence.
B) Comma Splice.
C) Complete sentence.
D) Fragment.
11. "Smushing" two or more independent clauses together with no punctuation is called a fused or run-on sentence.
A) False.
B) True.
12. When Matt shaved his head, his mother worried that he had joined a cult the realreason for the bald head, however, was that Matt could get more attention andsympathy from girls who thought he was sick with a dread disease.
A) Comma splice.
B) Fused sentence.
13. Ron Weasley has a freckle on his nose, and I have some on my cheeks.
A) Connecting verbs.
B) Connecting subjects.
C) Connecting independent clauses.
D) Connecting objects.
14. Catrina frosted the birthday cake and I lit all sixteen candles.
A) Do not add a comma.
B) Add a comma.
15. When using a coordinating conjunction to join two independent clauses (complete thoughts), you must insert a comma before the conjunction.
A) True.
B) False.
16. To determine if a clause can stand on its own, you can ask the question:"Is it true that _____ ?".
A) True.
B) False.
17. Aragorn bought seven new posters at the mall; he was disappointed when he realized they wouldn't all fit in his room.
A) Run-on (Fused).
B) Complete Sentence.
C) Comma Splice.
D) Sentence Fragment.
18. List the coordinating conjunctions.
A) For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.
B) Therefore, Although, Moreover, Otherwise, For, So.
C) For, And, Not, Because, Otherwise, For, Somewhat.
D) Forward, Although, Nonetheless, But, Or, Somehow.
19. Raccoons are also destructive and unpredictable, even when tame or born into captivity.
A) Correct.
B) Comma Splice / Fused Sentence.
20. Bernadette Wolowitz mixed up the numbers for the hospital and the pizza place in her phone the nurse was very confused when she ordered two pepperoni calzones.
A) Run-on (Fused).
B) Comma Splice.
C) Complete Sentence.
D) Sentence Fragment.
21. Jeremiah likes to put peanut butter on his pancakes instead of syrup, the smell is appealing, but I wouldn't want to eat anything so sticky that early in the morning.
A) Fused sentence.
B) Comma splice.
22. Which is a correct way to fix the following run on sentence? We bought a hammer we bought nails.
A) We bought a hammer, and we bought nails. .
B) We bought a hammer; we bought nails.
C) We bought a hammer and we bought nails.
D) None of above.
23. Rachel painstakingly ironed her linen shirt all the while, she was thinking how pointless this chore was since linen begins to wrinkle the moment after the last button is fastened.
A) Comma Splice.
B) Fused sentence.
24. Last night, Julie went to the movies and ate out at the diner.
A) Connecting objects.
B) Connecting independent clauses.
C) Connecting verbs.
D) Connecting subjects.
25. The barn was very large it smelled of hay and horses.
A) Fused.
B) Fragment.
C) Comma Splice.
D) Correct.