Comma Splice Grammar Help

If one needs help with comma-splices, in the following there will be examples of correctly written sentences as well as some examples of different sentence types. If there is nothing written below a sentence then it is correct, if not, the sentence type will be listed.

1. The town knows this when the phone wires get tangled inside the trees, the maintenance people come and cut out the branches at that height.
   
   This is an example of a fused sentence.
2. Unfortunately, Bernard's accomplishment was short-lived, because it wasn't long before each of those wonderfully cleared chairs began to develop a fresh pile of books, papers, and stuff all over again.
3. To his astonishment, everyone he asked agreed and even apologized. They said they would immediately clear everything off their chairs.
4. Each person had a chair next to his or her desk for visitors, but their visitors were not able to sit in many of those chairs.
5. Melinda told the maintenance people that hawthorn trees would not grow as high as the telephone wires, so they would not need to have their branches cut.
6. She explained to the maintenance people that all the other types of trees would grow very tall, the telephone wires, which are twenty-five feet up, would get tangled among the branches.
   
   This is an example of a comma splice.
7. Melinda told the maintenance people that she would only want hawthorn trees planted at her curb she told them her reason.
   
   This is an example of a fused sentence.
8. Out of all the trees that the town planted, the hawthorn was the only type that was an "understory" tree, that's why Melinda wanted hawthorns.
   
   This is an example of a comma splice.
9. The maintenance people said they could not guarantee that Melinda would get only hawthorn trees they would select the trees randomly when they come to do the planting.
   
   This is an example of a fused sentence.
10. The town council wanted to beautify the streets by planting trees along the curbs in front of houses whose trees had died, Melinda refused to have new trees planted at her curb.
    
    This is an example of a comma splice.
11. The reason was very simple: most people stacked books, papers, and other stuff on their chairs.
12. Bernard loved his part-time job at the local newspaper, but there was one problem.
13. He began with a few of the advertising people. He asked them if they wouldn't mind keeping things off their chairs so that visitors could sit in them.
14. The town maintenance people told Melinda that they planted the following types of trees: linden, hawthorn, maple, sweet gum, and flowering pear.
15. Melinda's curb is the only one on her block without street trees, this is exactly the way she wants it.
    
    This is an example of a comma splice.
16. Eventually, he got to everyone in the office. One by one, the chairs were cleared of clutter, and visitors could sit.
17. Nearly all the people who worked there had the same habit. It was a habit that had always annoyed Bernard.
18. These people used their chairs as extensions of their desks, so their visitors would have to stand next to the overburdened chairs.
19. Bernard wanted to break this habit. After all, why couldn't a chair be used as a chair?
20. She wasn't against the idea of new street trees her problem was with the type of trees the town wanted to plant.
    
    This is an example of a comma splice.

So there you have a few examples of some correct, fused, and comma splice sentences. Hope these examples are able to help you guys further understand sentence structures and sentence types!

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