ENGL102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Semicolon, Gambling, Dangling Modifier
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Correct the following sentences: comma splice: occurs when we join two main phrases. Hamlet and laertes have very different personalities, both are enough like us and the people we know to be believable. The wongs were amazed to see a bear on the main street while vacationing in jasper. Determined to finish her essay, all interruptions were ignores. Correction: determined to finish her essay, she ignore all interruptions: faulty parallelism: occurs when element in a sentence are not parallel. Many children do poorly in school because of inadequate diet, poor instruction, and they are not very interested. Correction: many children do poorly in school because of inadequate diet, poor instruction, and lack of interest: faulty coordination: occurs when elements in a sentence are not gramaticalluu parallen or if unrelated ideas are joined. On the camping trip, lewis learned to despise canned food, to loathe outdoor toilets, and he enjoyed playing video games on his laptop computer.
