How to fix and identify Run-on Sentences.

1. Run on Sentences
ALSO CALLED A FUSED
SENTENCE.

2. What is a run-on
sentence
A run-on sentence
occurs when two or
more independent
clauses are not
joined correctly.
An independent
clause is a group of
words that can
stand alone as a
sentence.
Example: I love to
write papers I
would write one
everyday if I had
the time.

3. How to identify a run-on sentence.
• When a writer puts no mark of punctuation and no coordinating
conjunction between independent clauses.
• A comma splice is also a run-on sentence one way to identify a
comma splice is when two or more independent clauses are
joined by just a comma and no coordinating conjunction.

4. The different types of run-on sentences.
The first one is called a Fused sentence which occurs when
independent clauses run together with no marks of punctuation
or coordinating conjunctions to separate them.
The second one is called a comma splice which is when two or
more independent clauses are joined only by a comma.

5. The first of
the four
ways to fix a
run-on
sentance.
Use a period.
Example: I love to write
papers. I would write
one every day if I had
the time.

6. Does a run-on
sentence have a
specific length.
NO IT DOES NOT A
RUN-ON
SENTENCE CAN
EITHER BE VERY
LONG OR VERY
SHORT.

7. The second way
of the four ways to
fix a run-on
sentence.
• Use a semicolon
• example: I love to write papers; I
would write one everyday if I had the
time.

8. The third of
the four
ways to fix a
run-on
sentence.
Use a comma and
coordinating
conjunction.
Example: I love to write
papers, and I would
write one everyday If I
had the time.

9. The fourth of
the four ways
to fix a run-on
sentence is.
• Use a subordinating conjunction
• Example: Because I love to write
papers, I would write one everyday if
I had the time.