How to Edit Your Writing : What Are Run-ons and Sentence Fragments?

[ktrickel]

@yodasodaskoda Well-formed may be subjective, but it's definitely not a run-on or a comma splice. The sentence is grammatically ok.

[FalconMan1960]

Actually, sentence fragments like "Left really early last night" can be used as spoken text in books. To use it as you explain something in a book any other way would be painful to read.

[harrysmallenburg]

This is pretty weak. Right on to the person who pointed out that the first example is not a run-on. Not very clear why the fragment is a fragment--"not a complete thought" doesn't tell us much. You could have a complete sentence that, in some sense, is still not a complete thought.

[PianistandFencer]

...That isn't a run on...you just spliced a very large sentence with a comma. Who is this god-awful woman?

[Dynaverse]

shes so nervous!

[TheBookWorld]

hmmm... What a interesting comment....

[PianistandFencer]

@TheBookWorld What *an* interesting comment.

[ktrickel]

Your run-on example is not a run-on. It is a well-formed sentence with embedded subordinate clauses.

[yodasodaskoda]

@ktrickel Nope. Not well formed.