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A run-on sentence is a sentence that consists of two or more independent clauses (i.e. clauses that have not been made dependent through the use of a relative pronoun or a subordinating conjunction) that are joined without appropriate punctuation: the clauses "run on" into confusion. The independent clauses can be "fused", as in "It is nearly ...
But grammarians teach from the very early grades of elementary school that a comma splice is a run-on setence. In fact, I doubt if many students anywhere know what a comma splice is, but they have all been taught what a run-on is (with the comma). Softlavender 07:03, 21 January 2008 (UTC) Some grammarians teach this, while others define run-on ...
Run On or run-on may refer to: Run-on, in hydrology, the process or measure of surface water infiltration; Run-on sentence, a grammatical construction; Nuclear run-on, a test to identify genes; Run On (band) "God's Gonna Cut You Down" (also known as "Run On" or "Run On for a Long Time"), a folk song covered by many artists
A major sentence is a regular sentence; it has a subject and a predicate, e.g. "I have a ball." In this sentence, one can change the persons, e.g. "We have a ball." However, a minor sentence is an irregular type of sentence that does not contain a main clause, e.g. "Mary!", "Precisely so.", "Next Tuesday evening after it gets dark."
Comma splices are similar to run-on sentences, which join two independent clauses without any punctuation or a coordinating conjunction such as and, but, for, etc. Sometimes the two types of sentences are treated differently based on the presence or absence of a comma, but most writers consider the comma splice a special type of run-on sentence ...
Fused quartz, fused silica or quartz glass is a glass consisting of almost pure silica (silicon dioxide, SiO 2) in amorphous (non-crystalline) form.
A nuclear run-on assay is conducted to identify the genes that are being transcribed at a certain time point. Approximately one million cell nuclei are isolated and incubated with labeled nucleotides , and genes in the process of being transcribed are detected by hybridization of extracted RNA to gene specific probes on a blot . [ 1 ]