Language Center Program, Writing Tips
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A comma splice is a specific form of a run-on (fusion). In a comma splice, two sentences have been joined using a comma WITHOUT a coordinating conjunction. For example, the following sentence is a comma splice:
Tom went to Ireland in early May, later he traveled to Scotland.
You can eliminate a comma splice by placing a coordinating conjunction after the comma or replacing the comma with a semicolon or period. So in the example above, any of the following would eliminate the comma splice:
