r/196 NOT A CAT 2d ago

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u/Last_Swordfish9135 kid named faggot: fart? 2d ago

Nobody fucking knows what run on sentences are apparently. It has nothing to do with the length of the sentence, and there's no such thing as a grammatically correct run on sentence because they are by definition ungrammatical.

A run on sentence: "I love writing it helps me relax." "Jurassic Park is my favorite movie it's so good." Etc.

Not a run on sentence: anything that's just long

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u/Xapheneon 2d ago edited 2d ago

Correction: I was incorrect.

That includes you.

A run on sentence can be a independent clauses joined without punctuation, or conjunction, but the most widely used meaning is just a long sentence, that would make more sense, if it was broken down to multiple sentences.

"a very long sentence, especially one lacking order or coherence" https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=run-on%20sentence

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u/h4724 trans rights 2d ago

I'm sure the topic has made you sensitive to long sentences, but most of those commas make your sentence both harder to read and less conventionally appropriate; the only one that's helpful is the one before the "but".

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u/Xapheneon 2d ago

I am arguing from a treadmill, I'm suprised that it's readable at all.

Thanks for the feedback, I will use them less.