2 ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE I Second Course I Sentences and Paragraphs NAME CLASS DATE
for EXERCISE 3 PRACTICE B, WORKSHEET 6 Identifying and Revising Run-on Sentences
DIRECTIONS Decide which of the following groups of words are run-on sentences.
• If the group of words is correct, write C; if it is a run-on, write R.
• Revise each run-on sentence by (1} making it two separate sentences or
(2} using a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
EXAMPLE i2 Albert Einstein was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth
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centuryJ he changed the way people view the universe.
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1. School in Munich was too rigid and boring for young Einstein he did not do well. 2. However, young Einstein showed a talent for mathematics, at the age of 12,
he taught himself Euclidean geometry.
3. After finishing secondary school, he entered the Federal Polytechnic Academy
in Switzerland, he did not like the teaching methods there.
4. The academy frustrated him he could learn in a way that interested him.
5. Einstein chose to educate himself, he missed classes often and spent the time studying physics on his own.
6. His professors had low opinions of him, he graduated anyway in 1900.
7. In 1905, he published a paper on physics the University of Zurich awarded him a Ph. D. for