Activity: Correcting Run-Ons

Correcting Run-ons Activity

Using the four methods that you read about, correct the following run-on sentences. Be sure to use each method at least once to get practice.

1. Our cat was pacing back and forth making a weird high pitched chirping sound a bird had gotten in the house through the chimney.
2. Chrystal works really long hours at her job seven days a week she always stops work by dinner time to enjoy the evening with her family.
3. Classes were canceled for the day snow was falling so hard that it was impossible to see the roads.
4. Leroy loved relaxing in the pool on a hot day he really hated having to clean it at the beginning of each summer.
5. The nurse took three blood samples the lab ran tests on them.

Source: Erin Severs
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