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In response, teachers are prone to formulating grammatical laundry lists, sometimes calling errors such as sentence fragments or comma splices "Deadly Sins. Also called the comma fault or comma splice, the phrase is defined in the 4TH edition of The American Heritage Dictionary as "n. He meticulously labels each error, subtracting 15 points for every sentence fragment or comma splice, three points for each misused apostrophe, and so on. |
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