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Read the incorrect sentence. Write three to five sentences explaining what kind of run-on sentence it is and how to revise it.

My mother and father are both scientists, it must have been my destiny to become interested in biology.

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Answer:

This sentence contains a comma splice. It has two independent clauses joined only by a comma. One way to revise the sentence is to separate it into two sentences by changing the comma to a period and then capitalizing the word it to start a new sentence.

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It must have been my destiny to become interested in biology. My father and mother are both scientists. Obstract run on
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