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Commas/Comma Splices/Semicolons
Name_____________________
I. Add commas or semicolons where needed. Circle them. If sentence is correct put a C on the
line.
1. _____Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt Germany in 1929.
2. _____Because he was alarmed by Nazi actions in Germany Otto Frank began the process of
moving his family to safety.
3. _____He moved them to the Netherlands the summer of 1933 Hitler was not in power there.
4. _____Anne started kindergarten at the Montessori School in Amsterdam in 1934.
5. _____Since Nazi restrictions for the Dutch increased Anne was forced to attend a Jewish
school in 1941.
6. _____For Annne’s thirteenth birthday he dad gives her a diary.
7. _____On July 6 1942 the Franks go into hiding and they hide in the attic rooms above Otto’s
business.
8. _____The hiding place was discovered in August of 1944 but no one knows who actually told
on them.
9. _____Eight of the people in hiding were deported to Auschwitz.
10. ____Anne and Margot died of typhus in 1945 they were in the camp Bergen-Belsen.
II. Fix the following comma splices and run-ons. Add punctuation.
1. In January 1933 Hitler came to power in Germany and he banished all political parties.
2. The Nuremburg Laws were passed in 1935, they stripped Jews of rights in Germany.
3. Because Germany invaded Poland it started World War II.
4. Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940 once in control they set up a brutal police force it was
called the Gestapo.
5. Since the Gestapo administered strict laws they isolated Jews from the rest of the population.
6. The Allies carried out a successful invasion of France this success gave Jews hope for the end
of the war.
7. The Allies won the war in 1945 and the war in Europe ended.
8. In 1947, Anne’s diary was published in Dutch over the next few years it is published in many
other languages.
9. An estimated six million Jews died in the Holocaust for it was a true world tragedy.
10. In 1960 the hiding place of the Franks is converted into a museum so it can tell the story of
Anne and those who hid with her.