run-on

Examples

• All

• The poem is filled with run-on lines that seem to flow seamlessly from one to another.

• A few stories were little more than extended run-on sentences, almost stream-of-consciousness retellings.

  Academic text (1994)

• The man is one long run-on sentence.

  Blog text (30)

• How about that for a run-on sentence!

  Blog text (6)

• In other news, I like run-on sentences.

  Blog text (26)

• For Trio A is itself a sort of run-on sentence.

  Academic text (1999)

• Honestly, every single sentence in the book is a run-on.

  Blog text (17)

• Paragraphs 1 and 2 each have what is known as a run-on sentence.

  Academic text (2011)

• I know that's a run-on sentence, but it could be tweaked a little.

  Blog text (14)

• In her essay, she struggled with run-on verses that made it difficult to follow her argument.

Antonyms

D

disjointed

10 6.0

Not clear or organized, with ideas that jump around

F

fragmented

9 4.4

Not whole because it is broken into separate parts

E

end-stopped

• Literature

8.2

A line in a poem that ends with a pause and often has a punctuation mark

How Continuous

to enjamb

• Literature

9.9

run-on

• Literature

3 7.3

end-stopped

• Literature

8.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology