How To Use Run-on In A Sentence
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Missing commas and run-on sentences may not be a bad thing for teenagers engaged in writing-intensive online activity, says an English professor.
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His voice suddenly accelerated into one long run-on sentence, a stuttering river of syllables.
GENIE ON THE LOOSE
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Yes, you've all seen these emails - they are one long run-on gob of text.
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Eda's comment translates as one of the most beautiful run-on haiku's I've ever read:
Hell in a Handbasket: More Disturbing Signs
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In the areas of punctuation and usage, the Spanish language is much more flexible with commas, semicolons, and word order, and long sentences that would be considered run-ons in English are commonly acceptable in Spanish.
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I made the run-on team but as a winger because the incumbent halfback was heaps bigger and faster than me, and also because the mate that introduced me to the club had broken his nose the previous week.
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I made the run-on team but as a winger because the incumbent halfback was heaps bigger and faster than me, and also because the mate that introduced me to the club had broken his nose the previous week.
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Mr. Welser-Möst brought structural shape to the run-on scherzo, which is not easy.
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To that end, you should avoid using big words, steer clear of run-on sentences, and avoid any unclear phrasing.
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If, occasionally, his run-on sentences tax your patience and his scrupulous accuracy verges on pedantic, nit-picking neurosis, you never feel like giving up on him - he's too exhilarating.
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In all this talk about entries, it must be remembered that the (accepted) practice in counting dictionary entries in the U.S. (and becoming the standard in the U.K. as well) is to count not only headwords, or main entries, but inflected forms, variants, changes in part of speech, run-on words (like cunningly and cunningness under cunning), and list words (like reaccuse and reacquire), which need no definition.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
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Transcription rates were assayed using nuclear run-on analyses as previously described.
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The absence of run-on, the asyndeton of folk poetry may bear some relationship to Joyce's inability to develop a running line, the non-discursive quality of his writing.
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There's no room for that kind of discursive, descriptive run-on on the Web, where
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Structurally, he makes excellent use of run-on sentences for exclamatory emphasis; doubled lines (or more often quadrupled hiccups) propel his best songs.
