run-on sentence

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   an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction

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Questions about run-on sentence

What does run-on sentence mean?

run-on sentence means "an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction".

Is run-on sentence a common word?

run-on sentence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.