A Guide To Learn English Language

When we are form­ing sen­tences there are sev­eral sit­u­a­tions in which we may make mis­takes. We may be doing the gram­mar mis­takes, spelling or cap­i­tal let­ters usage mis­takes. Of all the com­mon mis­takes that we do with sen­tences are run-on sen­tences and frag­ments. These cre­ate so much dif­fi­culty for the read­ers to under­stand the sen­tences because these change the mean­ing of the sen­tences. When we are writ­ing some impor­tant doc­u­ments related to busi­ness then it is of utmost impor­tant to avoid these kinds of errors. So let us about these run-on sen­tences errors.

These run-on sen­tence errors occur because of the incor­rect join­ing of two inde­pen­dent clauses. By not putting a comma in between the inde­pen­dent sen­tences may became an error and changes the mean­ing of the sen­tences. By this miss­ing comma splice the mean­ing of the sen­tences get changes and make the reader confused.

E.g. Our body parts will be in an ini­tial stage of devel­op­ment we born we will born with all the parts of our body.

In the above sen­tence there is no comma which makes it dif­fi­cult for the reader in read­ing the sen­tence. He can’t under­stand which part of the sen­tence mean which mean­ing. The usage of the comma makes the sen­tences mean­ing­ful and sug­gests the reader to break the sen­tence up to that point and then con­tinue with the other part of the sentence.

The cor­rect ver­sion of the above sen­tence that makes sense to the reader is:

Our body will be in an ini­tial stage of devel­op­ment, but we born with all the parts of the body.

We can eas­ily solve the prob­lem of run-on sen­tences by fol­low­ing the sim­ple tips:

1. Break the sen­tence into the mean­ing­ful sen­tences when they are very long and make sure that they are giv­ing the same mean­ing that you want to con­vey to the read­ers. Try to use the com­mas, con­junc­tions to break the sen­tence into parts and make cor­rect usage of the conjunctions.
2. Try to form the com­pound sen­tences which use s the con­junc­tives to form the mean­ing­ful sen­tence when two or more sen­tences are joined.
3. Try to use the semi­colon an cre­ate some com­pound state­ments which will make the reader eas­ier to read the sen­tence very eas­ily and get the mean­ing of the sen­tence very easily.
4. Try to add some sub­or­di­nat­ing con­junc­tions which we dis­cussed in the ear­lier topic and this usage brings the mean­ing to the sen­tences when we join them. But we should be care­ful while select­ing these con­junc­tions from sev­eral accord­ing to the sit­u­a­tion and meaning.
5. Make sure that the reader can under­stand the long sen­tences that you write with­out los­ing the mean­ing of the sen­tences that you want to con­vey to the reader.