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by Onell » Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:18 pm
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Can anyone help me to understand structure of the sentence below.? Is this a run on? if not why?

In societies where members consume little salt, their blood pressure typically does not rise with age.

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by Salman Ghaffar » Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:27 pm
This sentence is not a run on. A run on occurs if 2 independent clauses (clauses that can stand alone as complete sentences with a subject & a verb) are connected with a comma.

My favorite example of a run-on sentence is: I was hungry, I ate your food.

To fix this error, the most common method is to replace the comma with a semi-colon ( ; )

The sentence mentioned by you contains a pronoun error. The pronoun "their" can refer to either the societies or the members. To clarify this ambiguity, it would be better to replace the pronoun "their" with a possessive noun such as "the members' ".

Hope this clarifies.
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:54 pm
Salman Ghaffar wrote:This sentence is not a run on. A run on occurs if 2 independent clauses (clauses that can stand alone as complete sentences with a subject & a verb) are connected with a comma.

My favorite example of a run-on sentence is: I was hungry, I ate your food.

To fix this error, the most common method is to replace the comma with a semi-colon ( ; )

The sentence mentioned by you contains a pronoun error. The pronoun "their" can refer to either the societies or the members. To clarify this ambiguity, it would be better to replace the pronoun "their" with a possessive noun such as "the members' ".

Hope this clarifies.
A more famous run-on sentence (in English, anyway): I came, I saw, I conquered. Latin didn't have punctuation to speak of when Caesar said that, so it wasn't a run-on for him.
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by muralimba » Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:45 am
Jim@Grockit wrote:
Salman Ghaffar wrote:This sentence is not a run on. A run on occurs if 2 independent clauses (clauses that can stand alone as complete sentences with a subject & a verb) are connected with a comma.

My favorite example of a run-on sentence is: I was hungry, I ate your food.

To fix this error, the most common method is to replace the comma with a semi-colon ( ; )

The sentence mentioned by you contains a pronoun error. The pronoun "their" can refer to either the societies or the members. To clarify this ambiguity, it would be better to replace the pronoun "their" with a possessive noun such as "the members' ".

Hope this clarifies.
A more famous run-on sentence (in English, anyway): I came, I saw, I conquered. Latin didn't have punctuation to speak of when Caesar said that, so it wasn't a run-on for him.
Good one Jim. A direct attack on Ceasar.
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