Avoiding Comma Splicing - Worksheet

The "Avoiding Comma Splicing" worksheets are educational resources aimed at enhancing students' understanding of proper punctuation and sentence structure. The first worksheet presents a series of sentences that suffer from comma splicing, a common grammatical error where two independent clauses are incorrectly joined by a comma without the appropriate conjunction or punctuation. Students are tasked with correcting these errors in three different ways. The first task requires adding a conjunction to link the clauses correctly. For instance, "I love to cook, I’m not very good" should be corrected by inserting a conjunction to form a coherent sentence.

The second task involves using a semicolon to replace the comma, thereby appropriately connecting the independent clauses without the need for a conjunction. An example provided is "Jamal waited for the train, it was late," which students must correct by employing a semicolon. The third task asks students to separate the clauses into two distinct sentences to resolve the comma splice. For example, "Melvin loves pugs, he wants one" should be divided into two sentences. The second worksheet follows a similar structure, offering additional sentences for students to correct, and includes a section with answers, demonstrating the proper corrections for each type of comma splice error.