I need help with grammar?

Question

How would i combine these sentences w.out comma splices or fused sent.
1. Several recent studies indicate that many American high school students have a poor sense of history. This is affecting out future as a democratic nation and as indivduals
2. Surveys show that nearly one-thrd of American 17 year olds cannot identify the countries the U.S. fought against in WW2. One third think Columbus reached the New World after 1750
3. Several reasons have been given for this decline in historical literacy. The main reason is the way hisory is taught.
4. This problem is bad news. The good news is that there is increasing agreement among educators about what is wrong with current methods of teaching history.
5. History can be exciting and engaging. Too often it is presented in a boring manner.
6. Students are typically expected to memorize dates, facts, and names. History as asventure-as a "good story"- is freqently neglected.
Plzz help. thank u

Answer 1

. Several recent studies affecting out future as a democratic nation and as indivduals indicate that many American high school students have a poor sense of history.
2. Surveys show that nearly one-thrd of Americans 17 year olds cannot identify the countries the U.S. fought against in WW2 or think Columbus reached the New World after 1750
3. The main reason is the way hisory is taught among several reasons given for this decline in historical literacy.
4. There is increasing agreement among educators about what is wrong with current methods of teaching history.
5. History presented in a boring manner steals it of excitement.
6. History as adventure-as a "good story"- is freqently neglected.
for boring memorization of dates, facts, and names.

Answer 2

Use bullets for #1 & 2.


The remaining put into a separate paragraph.

Hope that helps. You can't put all that into one sentence.

Also go through and delete any unecessary phrases (for example you could take out the beginning of #4).

There's lots you can do with what you wrote, you just need to play with it.

Answer 3

I'm sorry, I cannot do your homework for you. I'll see if I can find something that will give you the rules for commas. Generally, you can figure it out by saying the sentence and listening to where you would naturally pause between words. This is pretty much the method I use.

Answer 4

First run a spell check on the oiece and correctr the typos and misspellings. Then I & others will clean up the grammer. It looks not bad, but a few corrections will be required.

Answer 5

1) replace ". This" with "which"
2) replace ". One" with " and one"
3) replace ". The main reason is" with ", the main one being"
4) - 6) these pairs are fine the way they are