NAME CLASS DATE
for EXERCISE 3 PRACTICE B, WORKSHEET 6
Identifying and Revising Run-on Sentences
DIRECTIONS Decide which of the following groups of words are run-on sentences.
• If the group of words is correct, write C; if it is a run-on, write R.
• Revise each run-on sentence by (1} making it two separate sentences or
(2} using a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
EXAMPLE i2 Albert Einstein was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth
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centuryJ he changed the way people view the universe.
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1. School in Munich was too rigid and boring for young Einstein he did not do well.
2. However, young Einstein showed a talent for mathematics, at the age of 12,
he taught himself Euclidean geometry.
3. After finishing secondary school, he entered the Federal Polytechnic Academy
in Switzerland, he did not like the teaching methods there.
4. The academy frustrated him he could learn in a way that interested him.
5. Einstein chose to educate himself, he missed classes often and spent the time studying
physics on his own.
6. His professors had low opinions of him, he graduated anyway in 1900.
7. In 1905, he published a paper on physics the University of Zurich awarded him a Ph.D.
for this work.
8. In the same year, he published four more papers that presented new thoughts on the
nature of light and other important concepts.
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___ 10. Einstein achieved international recognition, in 1921 he received the Nobel Prize
in physics.
6 ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE I Second Course I Sentences and Paragraphs
NAME CLASS DATE
for EXERCISE 3 PRACTICE A, WORKSHEET 5
Identifying and Revising Run-on Sentences
DIRECTIONS Decide which of the following groups of words are run-on sentences.
• If the group of words is correct. write C; if it is a run-on, write R.
• Revise each run-on sentence by (1) making it two separate sentences or
(2) using a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
EXAMPLE i2 9.-01
Bears can live in many different habitats/they occupy mountains, forests.
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and arctic wilderness.
1. Brown bears include the grizzly and the kodiak, the largest brown bear is the kodiak.
2. Kodiak bears weigh as much as 1,700 pounds, they grow to a height often feet.
3. Bears can live more than 30 years in the wild.
4. Bears' sense of smell is more developed than their hearing or sight.
5. Females give birth to as many as four cubs, the cubs stay with their mother two
or three years.
6. Many people are afraid of bears, encounters with bears are actually infrequent.
7. Grizzly bears are solitary animals, they do not want to interact with people.
8. Generally, bears attack only when they are surprised, or when they are protecting
their young.
9. People should always store food and garbage properly, bears could be attracted by
the smell.
___ 10. Never try to outrun a bear, it can run more than 30 miles per hour.
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