A comma splice or comma fault is the use of a comma to join two independent clauses.
For example: It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark.
The comma splice is sometimes used in literary writing to convey a particular mood of informality.
Another example: The sun is high, put on some sunblock.
The major way to distiguish a main verb and a verb phrase with a participle in a sentence is to pay close attention to how the verb functions or what element does it modify.
While main verbs express action, participles look like verbs but function as modifiers or adjectives, and they usually end in -ed or -ing.
For example, in "The smiling postman waved at the children", the participle "smiling" functions as a modifier, indicating what kind of postman was "waving" (the main verb expressing an action).
Another example would be "The meal cooked last night smelled good". Here, "cooked last night" explains which meal performed the action expressed by the main verb "smelled".
To conclude, while main verbs express or indicate action, verb phrases with a participle function as adjectives modifying nouns.
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"[Grady Maxwell] has grown in my mind over the yars, and so too has his importabce to my story
Answer:
According to the information above, the narrator spent her years maintaining a certain grief from Grady Maxwell, which indicates that the narrator did not release her bitterness at losing her job
Explanation:
As we read the text, we can see that the narrator blames Grady Maxwell for the loss of her job and for all the defeat she went through as a result. Even over the years, the narrator reveals that she never stopped thinking that Grady Maxwell is her greatest enemy and the main responsible for her defeat. She claims that she doesn't hate him, but the narration allows us to realize that she maintains a strong hurt and a certain anger for everything she believes he has caused.
Synonyms: consequently, so, as a result, hence, thus, accordingly, for that reason, ergo, that being the case, on that account;
