ENG 1124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Passive Smoking, Asthma, Uptodate
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1. come before co-ordinating conjunctions when they link independent clauses. Example: to do well on an exam, it"s: separate items in a series. Example: we had to walk over several hills, walk for. Commas: separate the subject from its verb or the verb from its object. Examples: most: follow co-ordinating conjunctions. older, married students, must hold a job in addition to going to school. And: the lawyer said, that i should appeal the speeding ticket. Example: for three decades the government has warned us about the dangers of smoking but, millions of people still smoke: precede the first or follow the last item of a series. Examples: field trips were required in a few courses, such as, botany, geology, and sociology. And: i"ve always wanted a low-slung, fast, elegant, convertible. An error more common than a fused sentence or sentence fragment, a comma splice joins two complete sentences (or independent clauses) only by a comma.