Grammar Test 2 Answer 12

12. Careful to measure the shower stall before he used it, Jon-Jon, the two-ton gorilla, wedged himself into the space and lathered up, however, he had forgotten to bring along his favorite towel with the picture of Betty Boop on it.

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12. Careful to measure the shower stall before he used it, Jon-Jon, the two-ton gorilla, wedged himself into the space and lathered up, however, he had forgotten to bring along his favorite towel with the picture of Betty Boop on it. "however" is a conjunctive adverb; therefore it needs a semicolon before it. As it stands now, this is a fused sentence (a variety of run-on sentence).

12. Careful to measure the shower stall before he used it, Jon-Jon, the two-ton gorilla, wedged himself into the space and lathered up; however, he had forgotten to bring along his favorite towel with the picture of Betty Boop on it.