Practice on Run-On Sentences

Correct the following sentences.

1.  My hours will be 9 a.m to 5 p.m. yours will be 8a.m to 4 p.m.
2.  Driving 230 difficult miles to our children's home is exhausting we really prefer to fly there.
3.  We dread the Parkway portion of the rip, it's busy even during off-hours.
4. A medical myth states that we use only 10 percent of our brain, studies using imaging show that no part of the brain is completely inactive. don't believe everything you read or hear. 
5. Larry says he'll be right on time tomorrow. I'll believe it when i see it.
6. When you've finish unpacking.
7. Being a first-time homeowner and living on a very tight budget.
8. The menacing figure walking swiftly through the park.
9. The community organized a march for food donations and many people joined the march as it progressed we were too tired to do that.
10. I didn't buy enough yarn for my new knitting project, I turned around and went right back to the store.

Run-On Sentences

RUN-ON SENTENCES




If fragments are pieces of sentences, run-ons are too many pieces running together. Have you ever seen or written a sentence such as the following?


      Our new boss gave us his list of procedures some were already in our schedule.


Run-on sentences are very confusing to read since you don't know where one finishes and another starts. The two thoughts in this sentence could each stand alone:


     Our new boss gave us his list of procedures. Some were already in our schedule.


Or since the thoughts are closely connected,they could be combined using a punctuation mark as shown in the following example.


    Our new boss gave us his list of procedures; some were already in our schedule.
    Our new boss gave us a list of procedures, but some were already in our schedule.


Another kind of sentence error is called a "comma fault" because sentences are strung together with the use of commas. For example:


   We had to register,we did,then we stand in line for an hour, then the line didn't move,we went home.


Note that removing the commas does not correct the problem, but results in a run-on sentence. You can, however, choose one of the following actions to correct the sentences:

1. Write separate sentences.
2. Change one or more commas to semicolons.
3. Insert a coordinating conjunction such as and or but following the comma.
4. Make one clause dependent upon the other.