Week: 7&8 Grammar Girl Response.

In Grammar Girl Episode 45: " Comma Splice", Grammar Girl talks about using a comma to separate two sentences. She says that the main way to use a comma is in between two sentences with a coordinating conjunction, which is a word such as "and," "but," and "or." If you have a sentence such as "My frog was hungry, he ate my fish." that would be a comma splice, because their is no coordinating conjunction with the comma. Grammar Girl also states that instead of using a comma, you could use a period. So it could say "My frog was hungry. He ate my fish." She also says that you could use a semicolon because the second clause would expand on the first clause. I never knew that their was such thing as a comma splice. I always knew that their needs to be a coordinating conjunction when there is two clauses. Sometimes I am sure that I forget to use a coordinating conjunction, semicolon, or a period. This episode is a good refreshment to remind me of when to not use a comma and use a semicolon, coordinating conjunction, or a period. This episode reminded me to double check my use of commas in my writing.