Compound Sentences
A compound sentence has two or more independent clauses and no subordinate clauses. The independent clauses can be joined together with either a semicolon or a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
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Popularly known as the FAN BOYS, one of these coordinating conjunctions is used after a comma in a compound sentence.
Leaving out one of the FAN BOYS creates a comma splice, an error frowned upon by English teachers, college professors, and educated folk far and wide. You do not use one of the FAN BOYS with a semicolon. |
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Use your Elements of Language textbook: Refer to pages 188-190, 363-364, 376-378, and 490-491 for more on compound sentences.
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