Question
Name the academic writing error in the sentence below.
There is no law against crossing the street, the man did not commit a crime.
Comma splice
Run-on sentence
Sentence fragment
Unclear reference
Concord error
American spelling
There is no law against crossing the street, the man did not commit a crime.
Comma splice
Run-on sentence
Sentence fragment
Unclear reference
Concord error
American spelling
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The academic writing error in the sentence is a **comma splice**. A comma splice occurs when two independent clauses are joined together with just a comma, which is incorrect. They should be separated by a period, a semicolon, or connected with a coordinating conjunction.