Fused Sentences Quiz 6 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice π
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π§ Fused Sentences β Quiz 6
1. During her Bahamas vacation, Sandra spent every dime shopping, dancing, swimming, and sightseeing, she doesn't care that her rent will be late, or that she will have to eat macaroni and cheese for a week.
A) Sightseeing, nevertheless, she.
B) No change needed.
C) Sightseeing. She.
D) Sightseeing she.
2. Fix this sentence:We will go to the store we will not go to the park.
A) We will go to the store, but we will not go to the park.
B) We will go to the store, we will not go to the park.
3. Sherian refuses to let her kids 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.
4. What is this categorized as? The boy accidentally knocked over the girls books. Then picked up the girls books.
A) Fragment.
B) No error.
C) Comma splice.
D) Run-on.
5. Nobody arrived early.
A) Fused sentence.
B) Comma Splice.
C) Complete sentence.
D) Fragment.
6. I'll go on a run, or I'll read my magazine.
A) Connecting verbs.
B) Connecting independent clauses.
C) Connecting objects.
D) Connecting subjects.
7. Cannot forget to cancel my Netflix subscription tomorrow after work.
A) Fused Sentence.
B) Sentence.
C) Comma Splice.
D) Fragment.
8. At our lemonade stand, I keep track of all the money and Jane runs our juicer.
A) Do not add a comma.
B) Add a comma.
9. What is the difference between a comma splice and a fused sentence?.
A) A comma splice contains misplaced commas, and a fused sentence has no punctuation.
B) A fused sentence contains misplaced commas, and a comma splice has no punctuation.
C) A fused sentence is another word for a comma splice.
D) None of above.
10. Diamonds are one of the hardest materials known to man they are very beautiful.
A) Comma Splice.
B) Fragment.
C) Fused sentence .
D) Complete sentence.
11. I am going to the store to get plant-based ingredients.
A) Complete sentence.
B) Fragment.
C) Run-on.
D) None of above.
12. The dogs barked, and the cat ran away.
A) Complete sentence.
B) Fragment.
C) Run-on.
D) None of above.
13. Clarence couldn't believe that the hardware store was selling garden rakes for only $1.99 each when he brought home twenty of them, his wife Marie just shook her head and squeezed them into a garage stuffed full of her husband's other "good buys.".
A) Comma splice.
B) Fused sentence.
14. Determine whether the sentence below is a fragment, comma splice, fused sentence, or a complete sentence. First, Michael went to the local community college; then, he transferred to Rowan University.
A) Comma Splice.
B) Fragment.
C) Fused Sentence (Run-On).
D) Complete Sentence.
15. Fix the fused sentenceIt was so cold outside that my ears froze they didn't warm up until I came indoors?.
A) It was so cold outside. That my ears froze; they didn't warm up until I came indoors.
B) It was so cold outside, that my ears froze, they didn't warm up, until I came indoors.
C) It was so cold outside that my ears froze, they didn't warm up, until I came indoors.
D) It was so cold outside that my ears froze; they didn't warm up until I came indoors.
16. The following is an independent clause:It is delicious.
A) False.
B) True.
17. Determine whether the sentence below is a fragment, comma splice, fused sentence, or a complete sentence. The history teachers met after school to discuss the final exam they decided to give a 75-question multiple choice exam.
A) Complete Sentence.
B) Fused Sentence (Run-On).
C) Comma Splice.
D) Fragment.
18. Many car owners are learning to do their own minor maintenance, some are finding the experience rewarding.
A) Comma Splice / Fused Sentence.
B) Correct.
19. Identify the comma splice:After finding her shoes, she put them on, ran after her dog.
A) On, ran.
B) Shoes, she.
C) CORRECT.
D) None of above.
20. She noticed the falling star.
A) Sentence.
B) Fragment.
C) Run on.
D) None of above.
21. Michelle is terrified of spiders, so when she found one in the bathroom, she panicked, refusing to shower for three days to use the restroom, she drove to her neighborhood gas station.
A) Comma Splice.
B) Fused sentence.
22. Because his glasses were so thick, Quincy refused to get contacts, he worried that equally thick contact lenses would make him look like a bug-eyed space alien.
A) Comma splice.
B) Fused sentence.
23. Fix the comma spliceI entered my friend's house, so I realized that he had made a lot of home improvements.
A) As soon as I entered my friend's house, I realized that he had made a lot of home improvements. .
B) After I entered my friend's house and realized that he had made a lot of home improvements.
C) Entering my friend's house I realized that he had made a lot of home improvements.
D) None of above.
24. WHAT'S WRONG? My academic advisor told me not to take 18 credit hours for the fall semester I'm regretting not having listened to her.
A) Fused sentence.
B) Comma splice.
C) Nothing.
D) None of above.
25. Mark searched the nearly empty refrigerator for a midnight snack his only choices were curdled milk, stale pizza, and grape jelly, any combination of which he could not stomach.
A) Snack, but his.
B) Snack, his.
C) Snack, so his.
D) None of above.