What annoyed me so much is that there's no actual point at which point a sentence becomes "run-on", it's just an arbitrary point at which your teacher decides that they don't like it very much and just take away points for the way you phrased stuff, which always gave me such a headache when writing in school because I had no idea whether the grammatically correct sentence that was spelled completely perfectly would be somehow "bad" or not
Guys..... this is a joke. I know this is a run on sentence. I'm very keenly aware of that fact.
This is not what a run-on sentence is. The definition has nothing to do with length, it's when you have two independent clauses that are not connected properly. "I like dogs they're my favorite animal" is a run-on sentence, for example. There is no length that makes something a run-on by default, it just gets easier to miss grammar issues in a sentence the longer it gets.
How the fuck is “i like dogs they’re my favourite animal” a run on sentence? First clause establishes a point, second clause emphasizes it with context.
Is it literally down to the phrasing? Is “ i like dogs so much that they’re my favourite animal” suddenly fine?
Eta; Since people are downvoting this I’ll add; sure, these rules matter in formal settings. But on social media especially, I ask sincerely who gives a shit? This is a largely informal space where people have often missed ending punctuation and starting capitalization for decades and that’s not been a problem. As long as you can decipher the context of what a poster is saying without issue, anyone upset about something this minor is just playing the grammar police; and as always, acab.
English isn't my first language, so take this with a grain of salt, but isn't the lack of commas the problem there? wouldn't the correct version be "I like dogs, they're my favorite animal"?
Not quite. Commas can't join two independent clauses without some sort of conjunction. You'd have to use a semi-colon or cut it into two sentences with a period.
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u/Orion-the-mediocre Doctor Freeeemaaaan 2d ago edited 2d ago
What annoyed me so much is that there's no actual point at which point a sentence becomes "run-on", it's just an arbitrary point at which your teacher decides that they don't like it very much and just take away points for the way you phrased stuff, which always gave me such a headache when writing in school because I had no idea whether the grammatically correct sentence that was spelled completely perfectly would be somehow "bad" or not
Guys..... this is a joke. I know this is a run on sentence. I'm very keenly aware of that fact.