Question:
Run-On Sentences: How to Recognize and Fix Them
Have you been writing papers all semester only to have them returned by your teacher with the comment "Run-On" scattered in the margins? You thought you learned how to fix those, but your teacher keeps taking points off your papers for repeat mistakes. Spotting and correcting run-on sentences is an easy task once you understand how to recognize complete thoughts, or independent clauses, in your writing. Also understand that run-on sentences are a common mistake when writers want to keep two or more ideas closely related. However, there is a correct way to punctuate closely related ideas.