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.

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.

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.