Answer: 1. My television is broken. My mom told me to go watch the washing machine, but it was boring.
2. I baked a cake, but I forgot to add sugar.
3. Jacob went to the zoo. He waved to a monkey, but the monkey didn’t wave back.
4. He bought cotton candy. He dropped some on his dad’s shoe.
5. Sarah was hungry, so she ordered five hot dogs. She had too much food.
Explanation: The original sentences were run-on sentences because they combined two or more independent clauses without proper punctuation or conjunctions. The corrected sentences separated the independent clauses into separate sentences or connected them using conjunctions.
The original sentence combined two independent clauses "My television is broken" and "my mom told me to go watch the washing machine it was boring" without any conjunction or punctuation. The corrected sentence separated the two clauses into separate sentences.
The original sentence combined two independent clauses "I baked a cake" and "I forgot to add sugar" without any conjunction or punctuation. The corrected sentence connected the two clauses with the conjunction "but".
The original sentence combined three independent clauses "Jacob went to the zoo", "he waved to a monkey", and "the monkey didn’t wave back" without any conjunction or punctuation. The corrected sentence separated the first and second clauses into one sentence and connected the second and third clauses with the conjunction "but".
The original sentence combined two independent clauses "He bought cotton candy" and "he dropped some on his dad’s shoe" without any conjunction or punctuation. The corrected sentence separated the two clauses into separate sentences.
The original sentence combined three independent clauses "Sarah was hungry", "she ordered five hot dogs", and "she had too much food" without any conjunction or punctuation. The corrected sentence connected the first and second clauses with the conjunction "so" and separated the third clause into a separate sentence.