{"id":36211,"date":"2024-05-03T11:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greatassignmenthelp.com\/questions\/?p=36211"},"modified":"2024-05-03T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:27:10","slug":"which-of-the-following-is-an-example-of-a-run-on-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatassignmenthelp.com\/questions\/which-of-the-following-is-an-example-of-a-run-on-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following is an example of a run-on sentence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Which of the following is an example of a run-on sentence?<\/p>\n<p>A) Lindsey was exhausted she had not gotten enough sleep for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>B) Although she was positive she had finished her homework.<\/p>\n<p>C) The garden was in full bloom; the sunflowers were the tallest.<\/p>\n<p>D) The music was incredibly loud, and Sheila loved every song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\"><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">Answer: A) Lindsey was exhausted she had not gotten enough sleep for weeks.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Two or more independent clauses which are not conjoined or punctuated correctly constitute an error called a run-on sentence. The example given has an independent clause &#8220;Lindsey was exhausted&#8221; and another one &#8220;she had not gotten enough sleep for weeks&#8221; and they should be separated by proper punctuation and a conjunction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Option B is a sentence fragment. Option C is a compound sentence with two independent clauses, which are correctly linked by a semicolon. Option D is a compound sentence with two separate clauses connected by the conjunction &#8220;and&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\"><span lang=\"en-US\">To fix the run-on sentence in Option A, you can use either a period or a semicolon to separate the clauses, or you can join them with a conjunction, e.g., &#8220;Lindsey was exhausted as she had been not sleeping properly for several weeks.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the following is an example of a run-on sentence? 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