1. A comma splice walks into a restaurant, it has a meal and then leaves. 
When two independent clauses are connected by only a comma, they constitute a run-on sentence that is called a comma-splice. 
2. A dangling modifier walks into a restaurant. After finishing a meal, the waiter asks it to leave.
Substitute the words "danging modifier" with the word  "man" - now re-read the sentence.
Hmmmm, did the waiter ask the man or the meal to leave?
A dangling modifier is a phrase or clause
 which says something different from what is meant because words are 
left  out.  The meaning of the sentence, therefore, is left "dangling.") Also called a misplaced modifier.
3. A question mark walks into a restaurant?
Think "Fiddler on the Roof" and read again.
4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a restaurant.
5. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a restaurant, eating to eat.
    (gerund = ing   /  infinitive = to ______ )
6. The restaurant was walked into by the passive voice.
7. Three intransitive verbs walk into a restaurant. They sit. They eat. They leave. 
  (In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb that has no direct object.)
 
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