Comma Errors In Writing

Every one of has heard it a hundred of times that: every single rules of English grammar matters. We all want to write a good paper without any flaws and errors. The problem is that writing a good paper is seldom fun. If you've studied a foreign language in school, if English is your secondary language, you no doubt will be in problems because you won’t have that much idea to write organized writings without any errors. It can get tedious. Errors such as coma splice error, Subject- verb agreement error, weak thesis, weak evidential supports, counterarguments and your general style of writing takes the vampire mode and drains all of your confidence out of you as a vampire drains the blood out of you, you feels like you are being executed. Those
Comma splice is the use of comma to join the two independent clause. Comma splice errors are like very much similar to run-on sentences. Wikipedia defines run-on as “a run-on is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses (i.e., complete sentences) are joined without an appropriate punctuation or conjunction.” A comma splice occurs when two independent clauses are connected with only a comma. “Comma splices often arise when writers use conjunctive adverbs to separate two independent clauses instead of using a coordinate conjunction. A coordinating conjunction is one of the seven words: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. A conjunctive adverb is a word like furthermore, however, or moreover. A conjunctive adverb and a comma (or a conjunctive adverb between two commas) is not strong enough to separate two independent clauses and creates a comma splice; only semicolons and periods are strong enough to separate two independent clauses without a conjunction” (Buckley, 2003). For example, we gathered around, we then moved to Kansas City. This sentence contains comma splice error. And it can be resolved or corrected by using a conjunction “and”. We gathered around, and we then moved to Kansas
The comma splice troubled me so hard. I sometime feel comma splice as an error, a horror, a nightmare, an insult- something so terrible, to be dreaded and denounced. I feel so, may be because of my incomplete knowledge of sentences development. The way of writing essays and writing articles was way different in high school. We were given to write a personal essays. Those personal essay didn’t contain any thesis. We just wrote what we thought about the topic without any research on that topic. We were supposed to use British English. From elementary school to high school we studied only British English, all the textbooks and study materials was based on the rules of British Grammar. Also, the papers we wrote were just graded randomly and roughly. May be because of these sets of practice I may have committed