Revise each of the run-on sentences in the following items in two of four ways: make separate sentences of the independent clauses; separate the clauses with a semicolon; insert an appropriate coordinating conjunction and a comma; or make one clause dependent on the other. 1. he did not finish work until midnight he was too tired to drive home. 2. the record sarah bought was defective she returned it to the store. 3. the speaker is a well-known poet he teaches a poetry seminar at the university. 4. the skills center offers job training to people who need it it can't guarantee jobs though. 5. the parking problem in the downtown area is getting out of hand the mayor suggests a new underground parking garage.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”