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Lazy Lou heard that a particular machine would do half his work. He ordered two.
I bought a gas grill two weeks ago, and now I like to cook every day.
When Lazy Lou heard that a particular machine would do half his work, he ordered two!
I bought a gas grill two weeks ago because I like to cook every day.
Adding a semicolon
Connect the two independent clauses with a semicolon.
EXAMPLES:
Lazy Lou heard that a particular machine would do half his work; he ordered two.
I bought a gas grill two weeks ago; however, I have not yet used it.
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Sentence Fragments
A sentence needs to form a complete thought and have both a complete subject and a complete verb.
Sentence fragments are usually missing one or more of these elements.
EXAMPLES:
In this fragment, the reader is confused about what happens because you love to read and write. To
make this complete, either remove the subordinating conjunction that makes it a dependent clause
(because), or add an independent clause (a phrase with a subject and verb that makes sense on its own).
You can add the independent clause either before or after the dependent clause.
Correct: