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Exercise 6 - Editing for grammar errors in a sociology paper



Instructions: This passage contains three Incomplete Sentences, one Run-on, and one Comma Splice. Click on the mistake and correct the word or phrase in the box. When finished, check your answers with WHAT WE WROTE.

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Find 3 Incomplete Sentences.
Find 1 Run-on.
Find 1 Comma Splice.
Adapted from: J. J. Macionis,  Sociology  (8th Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, pp. 354-356
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