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Fri 7 Mar, 2008 12:22 pm
You are posting as an anonymous user, there may be a short delay while we moderate your post.
I believe the above sentence is a run-on sentence. A comma shouldn't be there. Instead a full stop is needed, and 'there should be capitalised so that the sentences is split into two.
In other words, the sentence should be reworded as follows:
You are posting as an anonymous user. There may be a short delay while we moderate your post.
Am I correct?
Many thanks.
Re: run-on sentence
Yoong Liat wrote:You are posting as an anonymous user, there may be a short delay while we moderate your post.
Or you could use a ; instead of a , if the second part is a consequence of the first part. In other words, if there is a short delay to moderate the post BECAUSE you're posting anonymously.
Re: run-on sentence
Yoong Liat wrote:You are posting as an anonymous user, there may be a short delay while we moderate your post.
I believe the above sentence is a run-on sentence. A comma shouldn't be there. Instead a full stop is needed, and 'there should be capitalised so that the sentences is split into two.
In other words, the sentence should be reworded as follows:
You are posting as an anonymous user. There may be a short delay while we moderate your post.
Am I correct?
Many thanks.
Yes.
There are a few suitable solutions, including yours and Mame's: such as
You are posting as an anonymous user, so there may be.....
Because you are posting as an anonymous user, there may be .....
Thanks, friends, for your guidance.
Re: run-on sentence
Yoong Liat wrote:You are posting as an anonymous user, there may be a short delay while we moderate your post.
Is this a run-on sentence? It really doesn't run on all that much.
Or is it what's called a comma splice?
Re: run-on sentence
JTT wrote:Yoong Liat wrote:You are posting as an anonymous user, there may be a short delay while we moderate your post.
Is this a run-on sentence? It really doesn't run on all that much.
Or is it what's called a comma splice?
What? Probably from the Pinker manual, of "find something ungrammatical, give it a fancy name, pretend it's acceptable and modern"
:wink:
Re: run-on sentence
JTT wrote:Yoong Liat wrote:You are posting as an anonymous user, there may be a short delay while we moderate your post.
Is this a run-on sentence? It really doesn't run on all that much.
Or is it what's called a comma splice?
Hi JTT, thanks.
'Comma splice' would be the more appropriate term.
Most so-called comma splices are errors; not all, of course.
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