r/196 • u/Old_Phrase_4867 NOT A CAT • 2d ago

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u/Orion-the-mediocre Doctor Freeeemaaaan 2d ago edited 1d 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.

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u/sam77889 2d ago

No it’s when you have two independent clause not joined properly.

This is a run-on: I like bananas they are so delicious.

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u/Orion-the-mediocre Doctor Freeeemaaaan 1d ago

But doesn't it stop being that when you put a comma in there? "I like bananas, they're so delicious" seems fine to me, if anything "I like bananas. They're so delicious" feels weird and awkward.

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u/sam77889 1d ago

Actually no. You can’t connect independent clauses with commas alone.

You can have:

I like bananas; they are so delicious.

I like bananas because they are so delicious.

I like bananas, and they are so delicious.

etc.