Time for another word warning

[deckardcanine]

Take a close look at this rather long sentence devoid of punctuation and search your memory very carefully before you decide whether it technically qualifies as a genuine run-on sentence.

That's right, it doesn't. But the previous sentence does.

Comments

[carlfoxmarten]

Have you been reading "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" again?

Or just a book on grammar?

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Not lately. I was prompted to type this after a not-so-serious portion of my newspaper misused the term "run-on sentence."

[tabeal.livejournal.com]

It seems inerrant to me.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

It does, until you realize that it consists of two independent clauses separated only by a comma.