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Read
the following passage, and underline all comma splices and fused sentences
(remember the exceptions). Then use the space below to rewrite the passage.
You may choose to continue to link independent clauses, or you may choose
to punctuate them as separate sentences. You may add coordinating conjunctions,
conjunctive adverbs, or transitional phrases as you wish. You may revise
using dependent clauses or by converting two independent clauses into
one. Make sure that your revised paragraph is grammatically correct
and punctuated accurately. For each comma splice or fused sentence you
rewrite, be ready to explain the reason for the particular revision
you choose.
Perhaps
the most striking fact about people is that they make things. When
early October arrives, swallows migrate dogs get heavier coats snakes
go into a kind of hibernation people knit themselves caps. People
without caps and people with too many caps get together and invent
the set of promises we call money. Having invented money, people pay
other people to make parkas and slickers or they use money to buy
kits and make these things themselves. Rain pelts down deer seek the
densest cover they can find people build houses with roofs. When cats
get cold, they curl into tight little balls. People invent insulation
or they pay sheep ranchers to provide the wool that's made into warm
shirts. When caribou get hungry, they have no choice but to seek a
new range. When people get hungry, they don't move eventually they
invent pizza. They figure out how to cure olives they figure out how
to make thick bread crusts, they experiment with anchovies and pineapple
they invent beer. Indeed, people are makers.
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