We're taught to avoid run on sentences because it's not "proper" English, but then you read classics w/huge paragraphs in only 3 sentences.
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Replying to @SugarxBomber
@SugarxBomber they're very likely not run-ons. the problem is that very few teachers know what a run-on actually is.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@SugarxBomber so they teach people that a run-on is some vague idea of a long sentence, which is totally fucking wrong.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@SugarxBomber it's any sentence where independent clauses are just jammed together without a coordinating conjunction.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@SugarxBomber "we went to the bar they had a lot of beer there" is a run-on (and also quite short). slap a semicolon in it and it's fine.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@SugarxBomber some of my favorite writers occasionally do shit like write a page-long sentence that's 100% grammatical, for fun.
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