What does CS stand for?

Editors could have been a little more careful, too: The plural term "seraphim" is used as a singular noun (the singular should be "seraph"), and there are several comma splices, especially in the earlier chapters ("She'd never seen eyes like that before, had been seduced by them the first time he'd asked her a question in a college literature class seven years ago").

Realizing that the metamorphosis between the minimally competent writer (using comma splices and fused clauses) to the maximally competent writer, using sparkling participial phrases and compact appositives could be theoretically placed on a continuum of linguistic maturity, I decided to give the techniques of combining general semantics index numbers, showing a progression from least desirable to most desirable.

English grammar programs identify most run-on sentences as comma splices, wherein two independent clauses are connected only by a comma.

[Apparently no one has explained the concept of the comma splice to Jurgen, but seeing as he is from Holland, I'll refrain from cracks about government spending on U.

Ungrammatical Verse The comma splice is fine, is nice in letters or in poems, in essays it's a major vice and must be stopped at any price.

It's finally dawned on us that while we've been covering the Medieval Fair and arguing over comma splices, smarter minds were out there flipping West-of-the-Trail bungalows and watching their waterfront holdings quadruple in value.

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.