run-on sentence

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Etymology

So called because the sentence runs on beyond the point where it should end.

Noun

run-on sentence (plural run-on sentences)

Examples

Comma splice:

  • It's raining, let's go inside.

Grammatical but very long sentence:

  • It was raining but we went to the park and we got icecream and we played in the obstacle course and I dropped my icecream in the sand but I scooped it up and I licked it out of my hands and we went to the lake and we saw some ducks and it started raining really hard and we went home.
  1. (grammar) A written sentence that inappropriately joins two (or more) independent clauses into a single sentence, often with only a comma as separator (comma splice), which should be rendered either as separate sentences or as clauses joined more appropriately (such as by a semicolon or by a comma and coordinating conjunction).
    Synonym: fused sentence
    Hyponym: comma splice
  2. Any very long, often also in other ways badly formed or even chaotic sentence.
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