It’s not a lie, it’s a terminological inexactitude. cs Alexander Haig

The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance,

may not be a lie. no cs Susan Sontag

 

S-3a Identifying Comma Splices

Write cs after each item that contains a COMMA SPLICE and no cs after those that do not.

Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the back of the book.

EXAMPLE

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1. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. — Jane Austen

2. Don’t get mad, get even. — Joseph P. Kennedy

3. Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the

other assures it. — Mark Twain

4. Martyrdom does not end something, it is only a beginning. — Indira Gandhi

5. They’d like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven’t, we haven’t. — Gloria Anzaldúa

6. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde

7. It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes the horse

races. — Mark Twain

8. Procrastinate now, don’t put it off. — Ellen DeGeneres

9. I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad

because I have it no longer. — Colette

10. I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

— Imelda Marcos

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