You're probably not going around splicing genes left and right; it's best not to do it to sentences, either. A comma splice occurs when, rather than separating two independent clauses with a period (or at least a semicolon), you join them with a comma and no conjunction. (The exception to this rule is when the clauses are alike in form, in which case, lo! you have a rhetorical technique. For example: I came, I saw, I conquered).
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| Potions Master, Notorious Splicer |
I was rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night. Evidently, one of Snape's most dubious behaviors is his tendency to splice.
"We are continuing with our Strengthening Solutions today, you will find your mixtures as you left them last lesson, if correctly made they should have matured well over the weekend..."Sorry, Snivellus, but those are all independent clauses. 10 points from Slytherin, and if that wasn't dialogue, I'd make it detention.
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