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

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Uploaded by on Apr 4, 2008

Don't do. Learn what run-ons and sentence fragments are in this free self-editing lesson for writers and job seekers.

Expert: Kari Wethington
Bio: Kari Wethington is a journalist based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Karis experience includes reporting, editing, online journalism and video production.
Filmmaker: Jason Sager

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

  • @ktrickel Nope. Not well formed.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • @TheBookWorld What *an* interesting comment.

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

  • shes so nervous!

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

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