One of the enemies of effective communication is the run-on sentence. Like ambiguity and dangling modifiers, it hampers understanding and makes speech and writing ugly. You should, therefore, beware ...

The parents who allegedly left their daughter, Lacey Fletcher, “fused” to a couch to die in her own excrement for at least 12 years are facing second-degree murder charges. The parents, Clay Fletcher, ...

A comma splice is the use of a comma, instead of a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon, between the two independent clauses of a compound sentence. If the comma is left out, a second grammatical ...