IXL run on sentences question, please don’t get it wrong I love more than 1 person answering!!

The run on sentence here is, "Sprained ankles are common injuries for athletes, a sprain may not even need treatment."

Explanation:

A run-on sentence happens when two or more independent clauses are fused incorrectly. There are two types of run-on sentences. There are fused sentences and comma splices.

A fused sentence transpires when independent clauses work collectively with no signs of punctuation or correlating conjunctions to distribute them. A comma splice befalls when two or more independent clauses are linked exclusively by a comma.

When talking about, "Sprained ankles are common injuries for athletes, a sprain may not even need treatment." The part that is wrong here is the comma before "a." This is wrong because this is a massive voice missue.

The comma would mean to take a pause, which is a missue in human beings voice.

To correct this you would put a period for a full stop in that sentence and continue with the subject afterwords.

"Sprained ankles are common injuries for athletes. A sprain may not even need treatment.

You subsitute the comma with a period and make the lowercase an uppercase A.

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