run-on sentence

English

Etymology

So called because the sentence runs on beyond the point where it should end.

Noun

run-on sentence (plural run-on sentences)

Examples
Comma splice: It's raining, let's go inside. Grammatical but very long sentence: It was raining but we went to the park and we got icecream and we played in the obstacle course and I dropped my icecream in the sand but I scooped it up and I licked it out of my hands and we went to the lake and we saw some ducks and it started raining really hard and we went home.

1. (grammar) A written sentence that inappropriately joins two (or more) independent clauses into a single sentence, often with only a comma as separator (comma splice), which should be rendered either as separate sentences or as clauses joined more appropriately (such as by a semicolon or by a comma and coordinating conjunction).

   Synonym: fused sentence

   Hyponym: comma splice

2. Any very long, often also in other ways badly formed or even chaotic sentence.

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: oración mal puntuada f, oración fusionada f