HPA and GSMS Grade Eight LA

 

 

• Definition: A comma splice is an error that occurs when a writer attempts to hook two sentences together with a comma.

  Examples:

  • The clouds are gathering in the west, it will rain soon.

  • I’m crazy about dogs, English springer spaniels are my favorite.

  • I dreamed, around me the nights shifted and settled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2002 by Nancie Atwell from

Lessons That Change Writers

(Portsmouth, NH:Hainemann)