Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 97

In each of the following run-ons, locate the point at which one complete thought ends and another begins. Each is a fused sentence -that is, each consists of two sentences fused, or joined together, with no punctuation at all between them. Reading each sentence aloud will help you "hear" where a major break or split between the thoughts occurs. At such a point, your voice will probably drop and pause.
Correct the run-on by putting a period at the end of the first thought and a capital letter at the start of the next thought.
EXAMPLE
Bev's clock radio doesn't work anymore. spilled a glass of soda on it.
1. The men at the door claimed to have paving material left over from another job they wanted to pave our driveway for a "bargain price."
2. Linh, a paralegal who speaks Vietnamese, helps other people from her country write wills she assists others by going with them when they have to appear in court.
3. Vicky has her own unique style of dressing she wore a man's tuxedo with a red bow tie to her cousin's wedding.
4. In the summer, ants are attracted to water they will often enter a house through the dishwasher.
5. Humans have managed to adapt to any environment they can survive in Arctic wastes, tropical jungles, and barren deserts.
6. A five-year-old child knows over six thousand words he or she has also learned more than one thousand rules of grammar.
7. I rummaged around the crowded drawer looking for a pair of scissors then it suddenly stabbed me in the finger.
8. Squirrels like to jump from trees onto our roof their footsteps sound like ghosts running around our attic.
9. Today I didn't make good time driving to work every traffic light along the way was red.
10. Since I got my own notebook computer, I've sent hundreds of e-mails to my friends I never write letters by hand anymore.