Comma splice/run-on sentence

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to trends, punctuation marks in writings need to be
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Sentences with comma splices or the so-called run-on sentences can often be seen in newspapers. Such writers appear to be ignorant about the full stop being the most important punctuation mark which shows the end of the sentence requiring the use a capital letter at the beginning of the next sentence.

Note the following sentences taken from a popular national English daily on the same day:-

1) Quote of the day: All high performers have a secret, they use their mind's eyes.

2) Remark of a tourist in Bangkok: I'm disappointed. Where's all the fun?

Category 1 consists of two separate sentences joined by a comma which should be replaced instead by a full stop as the sentence before it is already complete in sense. Of course, the next sentence should begin with a capital 'T'.

Category 2 contains two separate sentences (the latter of which is in the form of a question) which are correctly punctuated.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. - Enrique Jardiel Poncela