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Pete
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:10 pm
Post subject: Comma splice? |
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Hello everybody!
Is the following sentence an example of comma splice?
Chicken pox, mumps, and measles are common childhood diseases, as is
whooping cough.
Would this be an appropriate way of correcting the sentence?
Chicken pox, mumps, and measles are common childhood diseases, and so is
whooping cough.
Thank you for your help!
Pete
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:13 pm
Post subject: Re: Comma splice? |
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Pete wrote:
| Quote: | Hello everybody!
Is the following sentence an example of comma splice?
Chicken pox, mumps, and measles are common childhood diseases, as
is
whooping cough.
Would this be an appropriate way of correcting the sentence?
Chicken pox, mumps, and measles are common childhood diseases, and
so
is whooping cough.
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No, there's nothing wrong with the original sentence. A comma splice,
as I understand it, is a run-on sentence such as "Chicken pox is a
common childhood disease, it usually causes a rash." That example I
might have written as "CP is a common c d which usually..."
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Matti Lamprhey
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:19 pm
Post subject: Re: Comma splice? |
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"Pete" <wolffpeter@t-online.de> wrote...
| Quote: | Hello everybody!
Is the following sentence an example of comma splice?
Chicken pox, mumps, and measles are common childhood diseases, as is
whooping cough.
Would this be an appropriate way of correcting the sentence?
Chicken pox, mumps, and measles are common childhood diseases, and so
is whooping cough.
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In British English the original sentence is fine grammatically. The
second version is an improvement because it avoids the zizzy effect of
....eases, as is...
Matti
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