Runon Sentences Help Somebody call Weve got some

Run-on Sentences

“Help! Somebody call !” “We’ve got some run-on sentences!”

With some things in life, you have choices … For example, you can choose: your major your clothes your perfume what to eat for dinner

However, there are other situations where we do not have choices: - following traffic rules - bringing a passport to the airport - taking IELTS to enter the university - using full-stops, commas, and connector words

What happens when cars don’t stop at a red lights or signs? They crash!

Car crashes can create a big mess! other cars have to wait traffic gets slow the police have to come people argue sometimes people get hurt

Run-on sentences also create a big mess! - one sentence has “crashed” into another - the punctuation isn’t correct - the capitalization isn’t correct - readers can’t understand your sentence - you get a lower mark

Let’s look at some examples of run-on sentences: My grandmother lived in the UAE in the past there were no roads. My grandmother was born 75 years ago she lives with us in our house. Their life was simple and beautiful her life in the past was difficult.

“Luckily, run-on sentence problems are a lot easier to fix than car crashes!” You have two choices 1. Two separate sentences. 2. Combined sentences

(you can add a period and a capital letter) My grandmother lived in the UAE roads. . In the past there were no (you can add a comma and a connector word) My grandmother was born 75 years ago, and she lives with us in our house. Their life was simple and beautiful, but her life in the past was difficult.

Here are some other examples of run-ons. Can you fix them? My grandmother was 50 years old she came to our house to tell us about her young days. I saw this game with my friends in fact everybody hoped that our team would win. People were shouting and clapping furthermore everybody supported their team.

Possible solutions: My grandmother was 50 years old, and she came to our house to tell us about her young days. My grandmother was 50 years old. She came to our house to tell us about her young days. I saw this game with my friends. In fact everybody hoped that our team would win. People were shouting and clapping. Furthermore everybody supported their team.