Zander - Unit 6 - Lesson 38

Run On Sentences are a sentence running into another one without a period to seperate the sentences

Example: The dog ran, the kid biked

1st sentence: The dog ran

2nd Sentence: The kid biked

1) Adding a conjunction: The dog ran, and the kid biked

2) Adding a semicolon: The dog ran; the kid biked

3) Adding a period + Capital: The dog ran. The kid biked

4) Convert to phrase or clause: As the dog ran, the kid biked

These add -ons allow the sentence to actually connect, and not just be two sentences separated by one comma

To stop a lot of run - on sentences, we can use pronouns

For example, in this: The dog ran. The dog jumped

We can convert the second dog to an "it" since the reader will already know it is referring to a dog

This comes out to: The dog ran. It jumped.

This can also stop redundancy as well.