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Review Exercise 15-4 Correcting

Run-ons in Sentence Groups

Correct the two run-ons in each of the following sentence groups,
writing your corrections on the lines provided.

1. Marian is trying to save money on her grocery bill she cuts

coupons, watches the sales, and shops carefully. Her husband

Pete is not as frugal with one trip to the grocery store, he can
destroy Marian’s entire budget.

2. Pirby, Nick’s Persian cat, loves to sleep in the sun it warms his

old bones. As the day progresses, the sunlight inches across
the floor Pirby moves with it.

3. After work each day, Henry works in his garden he raises

daffodils and enters them in a flower show every year. Henry’s

nephew Billy visited last weekend he trampled most of Henry’s
delicate split-cup daffodils into the ground.

4. The snowstorm moved in overnight by morning a glistening

blanket of white covered city streets. Soon cars and trucks