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fixing a fragment, run-on, or comma splice

The set of repair options — period, semicolon, comma plus FANBOYS, or subordination — for the three sentence-boundary errors.

Fixing a sentence-boundary error means choosing one of the five correct sentence-joining structures (or splitting the material into two separate simple sentences) in place of the missing or misused punctuation that created the fragment, run-on, or comma splice.

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sentence fragment run-on sentence comma splice the five sentence-joining structures
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