Comma Splice: Flashcards
A. The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slyly down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible and struck the hours.
B. It is also a fact, Scrooge had seen it, night and morning, during his whole residence in that place.
C. Let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change, not a knocker, but Marley’s face.
D. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowing sullenly congealed and turned to misanthropic ice.
B. It is also a fact, Scrooge had seen it, night and morning, during his whole residence in that place.
A. Ask not what that cookie can do for you, but ask what you can do for that cookie.
B. Always mathematical in her methods, Helga calculated the amount of money she earns per minute.
C. For dinner, he brought baked ziti, garlic bread, and caprese salad.
D. He dropped his pen between his bed and his desk, he could t get it back out.
D. He dropped his pen between his bed and his desk, he could t get it back out.
A. His lecture on potential energy has the potential to energize his class.
B. Suddenly, she stopped reading, the last page had given her a pretty deep paper cut.
C. The leaf grew from the highest branch, reaching as if to touch the sun.
D. For his birthday, Eeyore wanted a tail and a place to put his tail.
B. Suddenly, she stopped reading, the last page had given her a pretty deep paper cut.
A. No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired of Scrooge the way to such and such a place.
B. But what did Scrooge care; it was the very thing he liked.
C. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole; it was so dense without that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms.
D. To see the dingy cloud come dropping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.
A. No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired of Scrooge the way to such and such a place.
