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Oct 14, 2005 | 01:09 PM

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Warrtalon

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Originally Posted by hueman

actually that's a misconception. commas are more often the perpetrators of run-on sentences than the cure.

Sorry, hueman, but you are referring to a comma splice. The actual definition of a run-on sentence is...

The grammar crime: Run-on sentences join two or more complete sentences with no punctuation.

If you'd like to learn about methods for curing run-on sentences, you can look here. Two of them are things that I actually did: a co-ordinating conjunction (as stated previously) and a subordinating conjunction.

Would anyone else like to discuss the rules of English grammar with me?

Oct 14, 2005 | 01:18 PM

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ah, i was referring to comma splices

edit: which are often lumped with run-ons and are all forms of compound sentences

Oct 14, 2005 | 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by hueman

ah, i was referring to comma splices

edit: which are often lumped with run-ons and are all forms of compound sentences

Yes, they are, but he called it a fragmented run-on sentence. It was neither that nor a comma splice, so it's irrelevant anyway. I just don't want people challenging me on the grammar issue when I'm correct.