The McGraw-Hill College Handbook    Ex. 13.3    page 216

Run-Ons and Comma Splices

 

1. Even though learning to read lips is not easy, young children can adapt to this preferred method of teaching language to the deaf more easily than older people can.

2. Europa, Europa, a brilliant film, was not nominated by Germany for an Academy Award since some people believe that it embarrassed Germans about the treatment of Jews during WW II.

3. Correct

4. The Mediterranean fruit fly larva can leap distances of five inches although it has no legs.

5. The Super Bowl in January has now become an unofficial national holiday since people who hardly follow professional football during the regular season gather at parties before huge color television sets, eating and drinking and enjoying good fellowship and sometimes watching the game.

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