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The document provides a lesson on run-on sentences for 4th grade students. It defines run-on sentences as sentences with two or more independent clauses combined incorrectly. Students are instructed to correct run-on sentences by separating them into two complete sentences with subjects and predicates, or rewriting as compound or complex sentences. Examples of run-on sentences are provided for students to practice correcting by adding punctuation or conjunctions to join clauses properly.
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