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Our topic for English is “run-on sentences”. First, we asked, “what is a run-on sentence”? A run-on sentence is two complete sentences or ideas that are incorrectly joined. An easier way to think about it is to imagine that you go diving underwater. You use sentences to dive further down, and you occasionally need to stop for air. Otherwise, you’ll drown. As you get deeper and deeper into your sentence, you must take a breath, or what’s called “adding punctuation.” So how do you fix your punctuation so you won’t drown? It’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it. You can fix your breathing intervals where punctuations should be located by knowing where an idea stops, or when you feel lightheaded. It can be called a “run-on sentence” or just a plain mess of writing, a sentence without any proper punctuation is just confusing. If the reader can’t understand your writing, then your meaning is lost. In our video, we made up a lot of examples to practice just to make sure you understand the concept. Here is an example: “I have to go to the store I need to buy bread.” Here there are two independent clauses with no punctuation. Clause One: I have to go to the store. Clause Two: I have to buy bread. So the correct version would be “I have to go to the store. I need to buy bread.” Now the two sentences function as separate sentences.

Quiz

Chose the sentence that accurately separates two complete sentences 0/3

1. Mark got a brand-new phone for his birthday however he can’t figure out how to set it up.

a. Mark got a brand-new phone for his birthday however, he can’t figure out how to set it up.                                                                                       b. Mark got a brand-new phone for his birthday, however, he can’t figure out how to set it up.

2. My brother just graduated from high school he will attend university.

a. My brother just graduated from high school, so he will attend university.                                                                                                                        b. My brother just graduated from high school so, he will attend university.

3. It was a cold day snow was forecasted by the meteorologists.                                                                                                                                        a. It was a cold day. Snow was forecasted by the meteorologists.                                                                                                                                  b.It was a cold day, snow was forecasted by the meteorologists.

Chose the sentence that is a run-on sentence 0/3

4. Which of these sentences is a run-on sentence?

a. Participants could leave the study at any time, but they needed to indicate their preference

b. Bobby likes to eat ice cream he went broke after buying it a lot.                                                                                                                                            c. Jack went to the dentist. But he had a recording scheduled at school the same day

a. Owen wanted tickets for the Spiderman No Way Home movie unfortunately the servers were down.                                                                        b. Jimmy wanted a new pair of shoes. Sadly, they were all sold out.                                                                                                                                        c. Karen wanted her milkshakes right away. But the milkshake machine is broken

Answer Key

1. B
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. A