Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Test

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Nick's imagination always works overtime when he eats cafeteria food, for example, he imagines that the mushrooms in his cream soup are the tiny heads of newts and salamanders floating near the surface.
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Pat believed her husband Mike was paying bills and making the monthly budget, instead, he had turned down the volume on the computer and spent the evening racing monster trucks over the Internet.
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At her first tennis lesson, Latoya swung hard at an incoming serve, the racket slipped out of her sweaty hand and bounced off Coach Licata's head.
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The cockroaches were not worried that Simone had started washing dishes and wiping off counters, they still had a fuzz-covered Tootsie Pop under the couch to consume.
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Big Toe Joe, Diane's cat, "hunts" human feet as a lion stalks gazelle, whenever Diane wiggles her toes, Joe pounces, delivering a "death bite" to her ankle.
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Darnell regrets teaching his dog Cooper to fetch Frisbees, now Cooper retrieves any round thing he finds, mangling DVDs in his sharp teeth.
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As her New Year's resolution, Sharon decided to give up caffeine, but she still sneaks an occasional diet cola in the privacy of her car.
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The collar of Pablo's only decent dress shirt was two sizes too small, he spent the half-hour job interview wheezing answers past his pinched windpipe.
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The crowd cheered when Ben intercepted the quarterback’s badly aimed pass, then the fans threw half-eaten hot dogs and popcorn boxes as Ben rushed into the wrong end zone, scoring a touchdown for the Boone High Braves, the opposing team.
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Before 8 a.m., traffic is light, by 5 p.m., Fred always wishes that he drove a bulldozer to push the many other cars out of his way.
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When my cat Buster isn't getting enough attention, he will push a glass off the kitchen counter; the crash always makes me come running.
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1 point
Alicia remembered hiding the fifty-dollar bill in her favorite book, the trouble is that she has over 300 favorite books scattered throughout the house.
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The motorists who drove behind Sam honked their horns and cursed his slow speed then, when oncoming traffic cleared, they dashed around him, shaking their fists.
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With a bowl of warm popcorn and a cup of hot chocolate, Madison stretched out on the sofa to watch Aliens, her favorite movie, for the fifty-eighth time, the queen alien still managed to scare the pants off the poor girl.
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Rose constantly worries about germs as a result she carries a can of disinfectant everywhere she goes to spray items before she touches them.
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You should turn down any food or drink that Noel offers; he drinks straight out of all beverage containers and licks the drips off the sides of jars.
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While my cat Rocky is sitting no more than two feet away, one brazen squirrel will creep up to steal food out of his dish; I hope Rocky doesn't decide he's tired of chicken any time soon.
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Inside the house, my cat Fuzz insists on sleeping on a satin-covered pillow, outside, however, she enjoys lying in sun-warmed dirt and getting leaves and grass tangled in her long fur.
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1 point
William pulled his baseball cap lower on his forehead he didn't want any of his friends to see that his sister Maria had shaved off both his eyebrows after he lost a bet.
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Jeanne took her two-year-old granddaughter to a beauty parlor for a haircut, but when the stylist picked up scissors to trim Abigail's lovely red curls, Jeanne scooped up the child and ran for the door.