Tag: run-on sentence

Welcome back. In the prior post, labeled Stage 2-c, we explored – and, in some ways, exploded – the idea of any universally proper sentence length. I hope that essay helped you to take an interesting and useful step along our Stage 2 pathway. We now move to the next lesson, Stage 2-d, where we…

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If you’ve finished reading and considering the lesson in Stage 2-d, “Run-on or Compound,” you now understand that “not all long(ish) sentences are created equal.” (And, no, it’s not “equal-ly” there. See “adverbs” essay, under “Big-picture Concepts” / “Foundational Issues.”) The first and, to me, foremost division of “longish sentences” simply classifies them as either…

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Now we’ve turned a bright light on the first “purposeful” technique for correctly joining MCs in a compound sentence – the semicolon. For many reasons related to how people actually learn all this – as mountains of experience have taught me – I’ve labeled the semicolon “technique #1.” Well, compared to the old TV commercials…

Read More “Stage 2-f: Correct “compounds,” (w/ comma rules & accidentals)” »