I am having a hard time re-working the following sentence. I know it gets pretty heavy near the middle of the sentence. At this part: design experts utilizing a diverse. Would a simple comma before utilizing be all the sentence needs or is there a better way to structure it? Your imagination is the only … Read more
I understand that run-on sentences join independent clauses without a word to connect them or a punctuation mark to separate them, but can a connecting word suffice to prevent a sentence from running on? (Yeah, I just ended that with a preposition. Grammar Girl’s got my back.) For instance: I know a comma without a … Read more
I have to change a description for something in our app, and I was given this sentence: Create, edit and delete camera assignments and camera and DVR settings. Now the lack of an Oxford comma is obviously going to need to be updated, but I’m having some trouble with the subject of the sentence. camera … Read more
In every Trump speech, almost every sentence is a run-on sentence. Here is a quote from one of his speeches last year Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very … Read more
I have had questions on other boards edited with the reason “remove run on sentence” but why are they bad I went to one page and the example was I have a dog his name is George. The suggested solution was I have a dog. His name is George. well I was taught that was … Read more
I have a point of confusion regarding the use of interrogatives in English, as I am not a native speaker of English. I want you to inquire from your teacher of English that are the classes of English punctuation going on or not? In the above sentence, I think I have made a run-on sentence. … Read more
If this is a run on sentence, can I separate it properly? I would like to still maintain the ideas close correlation with each other. In this, Hesse tells the reader that we cannot equate the concepts of teaching and experiencing, for to truly understand something we must experience it, which may not be a … Read more
For example, this reddit post’s title seems like it might be a run-on sentence, or at least have too much punctuation breaking it apart. The sentence is: For the first time, ants have been seen self-medicating – on food rich in hydrogen peroxide – to fight off fungal infection. My sense is that the proper … Read more
I was wondering if this was technically possible in English. I did not know if there are specific grammar rules that would make an infinite sentence impossible. Answer The answer is no. A sentence needs punctuation. After that punctuation it is over. A sentence fragment can be infinite but not a whole sentence because it … Read more
On run-on sentences, Wikipedia says: This is generally considered a stylistic error, though it is occasionally used in literature and may be used as a rhetorical device. At the end of the article it describes how run-on sentences are used in literature. For example, some authors use them to depict stream of consciousness. Is that … Read more
