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run-on sentence

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Noun

  1. A written sentence that inappropriately joins two (or more) independent clauses into a single sentence, often with only a comma as separator (comma splice), which should be rendered either as separate sentences or as clauses joined more appropriately (such as by a semicolon or by a comma and coordinating conjunction).
  2. Any very long, often also in other ways badly formed or even chaotic sentence.

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