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run-on sentence

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. A written sentence that inappropriately joins two (or more) independent clauses into a…

    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).

  2. Any very long, often also in other ways badly formed or even chaotic sentence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for run-on sentence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA