Rts: Run-Together Sentences and Comma Splices

RTS: Run-together sentences (and comma splices)

The following are sentences from 1B papers. Correct the RTS errors

that you find. If you can find any comma corrections in the sentence,

go ahead and make them.

1. This is the same process that Descartes goes through, he starts with the

information he has gained, discards it, and from the doubting of what he

knows reaches a defining revelation about his mind.

2. However Elizabeth's realization encompasses more than herself, it

acknowledges her existence as part of something larger.

3. He finds this work distasteful yet he has nothing in his life to provide

solace from its influence.

4. The speaker in the poem still accepts physical reality and its wonder, he

just does not like seeing it abstracted and contorted.

5. But the sky and the heavens are symbols of the mind perhaps the views of

the two speakers can be reconciled.

6. When the speaker looks at the sky he does not see mathematical equations

and graphs approximating patterns of movement or composition, he does

not see the celestial forces that engineer the movement of the cosmos.

7. When the speaker sits in the classroom and watches as people marvel

at the knowledge of the learned astronomer, he becomes weary of the

accolades given for such a profane act and the deconstruction of the

perfection of the empyrean in a sense defiles the majesty of its existence

by rending it apart he reduces it to a shadow of itself.

8. After this the murderer is specifically followed through the story until we

no longer know whether the man is a murderer in fiction or a murderer in

reality.

9. Gregor's family and employer dominate his life but Gregor has the

capacity to resist their demands, regardless of the fact that he tends

to ignore that ability.

10. However, in the framework of Gregor's mind the

aggressiveness and assertiveness contained within the notion