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Practice Exercise:
Rewrite the following sentences, correcting run-on sentences and fragments.
- I love to write papers I would write one every day if I had the time.
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- I was tired from working late, I had to go to class anyway.
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- My brother just graduated from high school he will attend St. John’s University.
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- The weather was nice, we went to the beach!
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- We had pizza for dinner we couldn’t decide what to cook.
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- A time of wonder and amazement.
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- Clothes and shoes scattered around the room.
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- The answer to our prayers.
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- Because it was raining.
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- To explain why that happened.
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