Final answer:
To correct run-on sentences, you can add a coordinating conjunction, add a period, use a semicolon, or turn one sentence into a subordinate clause.
Step-by-step explanation:
Run-ons are sentences where two or more complete sentences are not separated by any punctuation. To correct run-on sentences, you can add a coordinating conjunction, add a period to create two sentences, use a semicolon, or turn one sentence into a subordinate clause. Let's correct the run-ons in the examples:
- Martha moans and groans upon getting up in the morning. She sounds like a crazy woman.
- The carpet in their house needs to be replaced, and the walls should be painted as well.
- Yoko has a twenty-mile drive to school, so she sometimes arrives late for class.
- I lifted the empty coke bottle and a few more drops fell out of it into my thirsty mouth.
- I found the cat sleeping on the stove while the dog was eating the morning mail.
- These pants are guaranteed to wear like iron, but they also feel like iron.
- I saw a black-and-white blob on the highway, and soon the odor of skunk wafted through my car.
- She gets A’s in her math homework by using her pocket calculator, but she is not allowed to use the calculator at school.
- Flies were getting into the house because the window screen was torn.
- I did not know that walking was such good exercise until I started to walk in earnest.