Week 9: Grammar Girl Response

In Grammar Girl's, Episode 49: "Run-On Sentences" she talks about the problems with run-on sentences, and their impact on the reader. She explains that many people probably think that run-on sentences go on like the Energizer bunny. A run on sentence is a sentence that is fused together, causing confusion for the reader. I get confused with run-on sentences. I often wonder if I have some in my writing but I never catch them. I see them sometimes at work when I receive training packets. When I see run-on sentences in published writing it really bothers me because that should be caught when the writing is proofread. This article made me realize that I might have not noticed run-on in my writing. Sometimes I am sure that I lack a comma somewhere, which creates a run-on sentence. I tend to forget about run-on sentences sometimes, this made me realize that maybe I should proofread better. I always thought that a run-on sentence was just one really long sentence, that is the size of a paragraph. A lot of the time I think that people forget about run-on sentences. Run-on sentences should be taught at a younger age to prevent habits from possibly forming.