Score: _____                Comma Splice Practice 2                Name: _____________________

Directions: For each sentence below, write CS if the sentence is a comma splice or C if the sentence is correct.

____ 1. Don't go in there, you will be horrified.

____ 2. She was, however, tired and worn out.

____ 3. First, I must go shopping, then I have to decide what to fix for dinner.

____ 4. Maria is running a temperature of 102, therefore, she should not go to school today.

____ 5. Although she had a fever, Maria still wanted to go to school.

____ 6. Mary Grace Thompson lives with her divorced father, for her mother ran away with the local tax collector.

____ 7. Every day Frank brings calm to other people's catastrophes, however, now catastrophe has struck his life.

____ 8. I was sick last week, consequently I've fallen behind in my work.

____ 9. Not only had her goals changed, she spent less time with her friends.

____10. She knew that at home her endless horse talk was boring, yet she wouldn't stop long enough for her father to ask about her symptoms.