Run-on sentences are a Grammar problem I never seem to tire off. Technically runoffs occur whenever a sentence stretches off over a large number of words without any complementary punctuation marks or stops. Run-ons pose a significant challenge to the readability of a work. Run-ons can also lead to interesting matter become boring and dry. It’s almost like a professor droning on in a monotone for hours at an end.
Run-ons have been documented since the earliest times. Shakespeare’s plays sometimes used them to demonstrate intense emotions or facts in a short span of time. Run-ons in most modern usages occur simply because most people have a lot of repressed feeling and can use a word processor to pour those feelings out at 74 words per minute. In fact most people find run-ons to be a perfectly normal fact of life. Run-ons can be avoided by a more structured and thoughtful use of English. Run-ons can be avoided by preplanning the format of representation. The best ways of preventing run-ons is by spacing the information over different pieces of the same sentences. Another method is to use periods to break information over different sentences. Run-ons have been subject to different punctuations like comma’s colon’s semicolon’s and hyphens.
In the future run-ons might cease to be a problem because of the digitizing of information. As people get used to computers reading stuff off on a monotone, long winding written paragraphs might cease to be a problem. The ultimate way of stopping run-ons is probably by paying actual real attention to the subject.
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