Language/Writing Tip 25

Instead of a proper tip,a list of comma splices:

1) “The ending is also the climax, the whole story almost unveils in front of us, but when the friend tells him what the flower means, we are surprised and understand the meaning of the whole story.”
2) “Everything could have been easy, if the boy was a ‘homebody’, however he was mischievous.”
3) “She lays bare the structure of the story, she presents it very clearly.”
4) “I do not know what the idea was, I was very confused.”
5) “The content of Gilbert`s letter to Nevada is also revealed and indeed resolves an argument, at the same time it also alludes to the somewhat Biblical explanation of sisterhood between women in the story and which now reaches a definite end.”
6) “People would be very strange to think dead frozen horses are romantic, they are scary.”
7) “It was shown in the film that there are steeple-chases, in my country we rear horses mostly for rehabilitation.”
8) “He did not want to make the scene believable, he wanted the audience to see the irony he was trying to show by making it obviously fake.”
9) “These people have no sense of time, they can never remember what year it is.”

For some reason, this type of error is on the rise.
Remember: don’t glue two stand-alone sentence together with a piddly little comma!
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