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Run-on Sentences

Run-on Sentences. Run-on Sentences. A run-on sentence error occurs when 2 independent clauses are put together without any punctuation or connectors. Engineering feats have propelled mankind forward they may also have caused a huge divide between the developed and the developing countries. x.

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Run-on Sentences

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  1. Run-on Sentences

  2. Run-on Sentences • A run-on sentence error occurs when 2 independent clauses are put together without any punctuation or connectors. Engineering feats have propelled mankind forward they may also have caused a huge divide between the developed and the developing countries.x

  3. Run-on Sentences • A run-on sentence error occurs when 2 independent clauses are put together without any punctuation or connectors. Engineering feats have propelled mankind forward. They may also have caused a huge divide between the developed and the developing countries. Engineering feats have propelled mankind forward; they may also have caused a huge divide between the developed and the developing countries.

  4. Run-on Sentences and Comma Splice • A comma used by itself to separate 2 independent clauses becomes a comma splice error. A conjunction is added to avoid this type of error. Engineering feats have propelled mankind forward, but they may also have caused a huge divide between the developed and the developing countries.

  5. Run-on Sentences and Comma Splice • A run-on sentence or a comma splice error can also be corrected by using a transition with a a period or semicolon at the end of the previous independent clause. Engineering feats have propelled mankind forward; however, they may also cause a huge divide between the developed and the developing countries.

  6. Identify the error and correct it. Run-on sentence Genetically modified food can solve food shortage in developing countries it poses some problems. Genetically modified food can solve food shortage in developing countries. It poses some problems. (add a punctuation: it could be a period or a semicolon) Genetically modified food can solve food shortage in developing countries although it poses some problems. (add a transition)

  7. Identify the error and correct it. Comma splice error Wind energy is clean energy, however it requires space. Wind energy is clean energy; however, it requires space. (add a semicolon before the transition and a comma after it)

  8. Sources Lane, A. and Lange, E. (1999). Writing Clearly: An Editing Guide (2nd ed.). Boston: Heinle and Heinle Publishers, 131-140. Oshima, A. and Hogue, A. (2006). Writing Academic English (4th ed.). New York: Pearson Education, 188-191 Raimes, A. (2006). Grammar Troublespots: A Guide for Student Writers (3rd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 19-25.

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