Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Mistake 18

Quad-Cities Online


This is my hometown newspaper, and I try to keep abreast of what's going on back home.

HUD grant to help get the lead out of Quad-Cities homes


But the recently passed federal stimulus bill pumped more dollars into the program so Moline got its grant in a second round of awards, said Frankie Atwater, the city's community development manager.


This is a run-on sentence, because there is not comma before "so." "So" is a conjunction and needs to have a comma before it when combining two independent clauses, just like "and."

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