{"id":2357,"date":"2018-07-05T17:31:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/I-see-a-surprising-number-of-comma-splices-in-some-books-I-review"},"modified":"2018-07-05T17:31:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T17:31:30","slug":"i-see-a-surprising-number-of-comma-splices-in-some-books-i-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/07\/05\/i-see-a-surprising-number-of-comma-splices-in-some-books-i-review\/","title":{"rendered":"I see a surprising number of comma splices in some books I review."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>I see a surprising number of comma splices in some books I review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem with a comma splice is that the two parts of your sentence are not connected firmly enough. You either need to separate them into two sentences; use a semicolon rather than a comma; or put a connecting word like &#8220;and&#8221; or &#8220;so&#8221; in between. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a couple of other ways, too, which Mignon Fogarty sets out in this article. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Grammar Girl<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 tools to fix a comma splice <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/DURq30kCEbQ\">http:\/\/ow.ly\/DURq30kCEbQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/ow.ly\/DURq30kCEbQ<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I see a surprising number of comma splices in some books I review.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/07\/05\/i-see-a-surprising-number-of-comma-splices-in-some-books-i-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}