Which sentences includes a comma splice? Returning to school after a long absence is difficult, but it's all worth it once you graduate.

Find something you enjoy doing; learn everything you can about that activity.

If you want respect, then you need to give respect, if you want help from others, then you need to be willing to help others.

Consider each failure an opportunity to get better, and ultimately you will find success.

Which techniques best describe the tone the author is using in this passage?

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Although william carlos williams rejected traditional verse forms he still believed that is was important to use poetic devices to distinguish verse from prose.