For help with recognizing and correcting comma splices, fused sentences, and sentence fragments, see pages 227-36 of A Writer's Guidebook.

NOTE: Cutting, pasting, and adding or deleting text may cause awkward line breaks which you can correct by backspacing. 4. Comma splices, fused sentences, and sentence fragments In the following passage, revise to eliminate any comma splices, fused sentences, or sentence fragments. World War II is recognized as a watershed period in U.S. history. Because of the political and economic consequences in the European and Pacific arenas and tremendous social change on the homefront. Most textbook accounts of the war focus on events overseas, to understand more fully the currents of consumer culture, accelerated technological advances, racial intolerance, workplace changes, and suburbanization that transformed American society, students also need to examine the effects of World War II at home. Food-related documents offer an effective way to learn about the homefront. Serving as a recognizable link to a time and way of life that must seem far away to students today. The documents provided here are meant to introduce students to four different wartime phenomena. Wartime shortages, fear of invasion, victory gardens, and Rosie the Riveter. The documents convey a "you are there" quality. That will help students to have a more complete understanding of what life was like for Americans at home. They also reveal some of the pressing social issues facing U.S. citizens, including young ones, at the time. Whether their relatives served in the armed forces or their mothers worked the swing shift. Whether their families were uprooted to a U.S. military camp or an internment camp. Whether they feared an actual enemy invasion or losing a loved one. Most American youths were deeply and directly affected by a war fought many miles away. Food is a powerful way to chart social and cultural change, it is not the only way. These documents are meant to supplement textbook study of the military and political events of the war overseas and the social changes at home. Grounding them in the concrete details of daily life. These materials also can be used to add another dimension to other document-based approaches some of the Rosie the Riveter documents might be used along with non-food-related sources, such as one of the available oral histories of women working in aircraft factories. Or shipyards. Please fill out the fields below to ensure correct delivery of your exercise. You will receive a confirmation notice. Your e-mail address Your instructor's e-mail address Your name CAUTION: If you check your answers and go back to this page using the links on the answer key, your changes will be gone. Use the back button on your browser to keep the changes intact. E-mail exercise to instructor Student answer key for this exercise (even-numbered answers only) Instructor answer key for this exercise (password protected)

© Copyright 1998, Bedford/St. Martin's. All Rights Reserved.