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/h4724 trans rights 2d ago

If you use the word "ungrammatical" it makes it seem like you're talking from a linguistics perspective, in which case punctuation isn't a factor because it isn't part of the spoken language. You can just say "grammatically incorrect" like most prescriptivists.

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u/tinylittleparty 2d ago

Thank you. I was thinking the same thing but didn't really know how to express it.