Runons & Comma Splices

COMMA SPLICES & RUN-ON SENTENCES

Understanding (and avoiding!) comma splices or run-on sentences is dead easy (if you can distinguish main clauses, subordinate clause and phrases, that is). The first thing to note is this:

Comma splices and run-on sentences and are bad!

They are considered major grammatical errors!

a comma splice (C/S) occurs when you try to join two main clauses with a comma in between them.
a run-on sentence (R/O) occurs when you try to join two main clause with nothing in between them.

ERROR	EXAMPLE
C/S	I will eat chicken curry, I like it a lot. .
R/O	I will eat chicken curry I like it a lot. .
C/S	You are my favorite class, I can't wait to see you again.
R/O	You are my favorite class I can't wait to see you again.