Sentence Boundary Errors

Sentence Boundary Errors

Rewrite the following sentences to eliminate all comma splices, fused sentences, and fragments. Please note that multiple solutions exist.

EX: https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/sentelmt.htm

https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/modulecs_fs.htm

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/5/26/5

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/5/18

1. Sam being an electronics professor and a working professional.

2. Different models of computers, software programs, and text formats are incompatible, data processing and information retrieval is slow and inefficient.

3. We should accept the proposal. Because the payback period is less than our company standard.

4. Biology is not the only field of science that nanotechnology will permeate this revolution can quite possibly influence all sciences and most likely create more.

5. Positive displacement pumps produce a pulsating flow, their design provides a positive internal seal against leakage.

6. The total cost is $500,00. Which will have to come from the contingency fund.

7. The crew will work all day tomorrow. Installing the conveyor belt.

8. The fourth aspect of the quality control function making adjustments to the process, in order to bring specification into line.

9. Two methods currently exist to enhance fiber performance, one method is to orient the fibers.

10. Web content development is becoming more necessary as businesses rely on the Internet to provide product information, advertising, and purchasing options for consumers, good writers can convey all of this information accurately, stylishly, and in a concise manner.

11. At the conveyor belt. The manager found the problem.

12. For example, a millimeter is one-thousandth of a meter, therefore, a nanometer is one million times smaller.

13. Images are engraved around the cylinder they are not stretched and distorted like traditional plates.

14. The engines of both cranes meet OSHA standards, the new M80A has and additional safety feature.

15. The difference is that the NC machine relies on a computer to control its movements, a manual machine depends on an operator to control its movements.

Insert the correct punctuation mark in each of the following sentences: (colon, comma, semicolon, or none needed).

1. The joiner has three important parts the infeed table, the cutter head, and the outfeed table.

2. Our printing presses are running 24 hours a day we cannot stop the presses even for routine maintenance.

3. Set-up time will decrease 10% and materials handling will decrease 15% consequently production will increase 20%.

4. The project was finally completed we were elated.

5. Pam’s reason for accepting the lowest paying job offer was simple her desire to live in the Northwest.

Rewrite the following faulty sentences with the correct punctuation:

1. The job is filled however we will keep your resume on file.

2. My plans include: finishing college, traveling for two years, and settling down in Santa Fe.

3. We need this equipment immediately, a voltmeter, a portable generator, and three pair of insulated gloves.

4. He; however, didn’t accept the final proposal.

5. She is an ideal candidate; honest, reliable, and competent.