The following sentences are run-on sentences. Correct each sentences by adding a conjunction (and, or, but, because, so) or punctuation to make two sentences 1. The boy gobbled down the pancakes and drank his milk and went to his room to get ready for school

2. Bob dashed downstairs and got his backpack and ran outside to catch the bus.

3. The science teacher handed out the test she passed out pencils.
4. Every Sunday is our family day and we go to my grandparent's house to have dinner and then we go to see a movie it is a relaxing day.
5.On Monday nights I have soccer practice and then I have to home to do my homework and my mom helps me read my chapter book and then I go to bed.
6. The book is interesting it has a lot of suspense.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt