Run-ons and comma splices | Syntax | Khan Academy - By Khan Academy
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| 00:0-1 | Hello , Grammarians . Hello , Rosie . Hi , | |
| 00:01 | David . How are you ? Good . How are | |
| 00:03 | you ? Good . Today we're going to talk about | |
| 00:05 | run ins and comma splices . So a run on | |
| 00:09 | sentence is what happens when two independent clauses or put | |
| 00:13 | together in one sentence without any punctuation or coordinating conjunctions | |
| 00:18 | like and but or so rosy . What is a | |
| 00:22 | good example of a run on sentence ? We bought | |
| 00:27 | nails . We bought a hammer . Yeah , so | |
| 00:29 | we can see that this sentence contains to , uh | |
| 00:34 | , to individual independent clauses . So we've got number | |
| 00:37 | one . We bought nails number two . We bought | |
| 00:41 | a hammer . Now there are a couple of different | |
| 00:42 | ways we could make this a legal sentence . But | |
| 00:44 | right now , as it stands , this is a | |
| 00:46 | run on . Right ? So there are a couple | |
| 00:48 | ways we could fix this sentence . One way would | |
| 00:51 | be just to add a semi colon in there . | |
| 00:53 | So you've got to independent clauses . We bought nails | |
| 00:57 | , semi colon . We bought a hammer , right | |
| 01:00 | ? Another way you could do that would be to | |
| 01:02 | just Atacama and then the conjunction . And so you're | |
| 01:06 | connecting those two clauses . So this is this is | |
| 01:09 | a run on sentence without this and in this comma | |
| 01:11 | . And it's called that because it's sort of like | |
| 01:14 | a runaway train . You know , it doesn't have | |
| 01:17 | enough stoppage in it . That's how I would put | |
| 01:20 | it . So that's what a run on sentences on | |
| 01:23 | . Now I want to talk about comma splicing and | |
| 01:25 | the word spice . Not a super common term if | |
| 01:29 | you are neither a sailor or a film editor , | |
| 01:32 | Um , but splicing is a word that originally meant | |
| 01:36 | to take two ropes . Untangle them and we've them | |
| 01:39 | back together . It's a sailor's term related to rope | |
| 01:42 | lines , in our case for grammar . Ah , | |
| 01:45 | splice . A comma splice is an inappropriate joining of | |
| 01:50 | two independent clauses by using a comma . So So | |
| 02:02 | , Rosie , this is little Tony crime Fighting pony | |
| 02:05 | . So , for example , in this sentence , | |
| 02:07 | I love Little Tony to pony up two . The | |
| 02:10 | Streets . It's my favorite movie in the little Tony | |
| 02:12 | franchise , very fine Siris of non existent films . | |
| 02:16 | The problem with this sentence is that right now it's | |
| 02:19 | got this comma in the middle of it on this | |
| 02:23 | comma inappropriately joins these two independent clauses . Oh , | |
| 02:28 | and this whole time I forgot to say to independent | |
| 02:34 | clauses inappropriately joined by a comma . So okay , | |
| 02:38 | so we've got independent Clause number one . Remember , | |
| 02:39 | this thing could stand on its own as a sentence | |
| 02:42 | . I love the name of this movie . I | |
| 02:44 | love Little Tony to pony up . Two . The | |
| 02:45 | streets that could be its own sentence on its own | |
| 02:47 | ended with a period period . It's my favorite movie | |
| 02:50 | and the little Tony franchise , period . But we | |
| 02:53 | have these two independent clauses , right ? Um , | |
| 02:56 | we cannot join them with just a comma . We | |
| 03:00 | could say I love little Tony to pony up two | |
| 03:02 | . The streets comma and it's my favorite movie in | |
| 03:05 | the little Tony franchise . Or as we did in | |
| 03:07 | the previous example , we could also throw in a | |
| 03:11 | semi colon , which is , I think , what | |
| 03:12 | I would rather do . I love Little Tony to | |
| 03:14 | pony up . Two . The streets , semi colon | |
| 03:16 | . It's my favorite movie in the little Tony franchise | |
| 03:18 | , and Rosie , you will notice that I have | |
| 03:20 | underlined these things titles because these are the names of | |
| 03:25 | published works , even though we made them up . | |
| 03:28 | Exactly , but okay , but for real , I | |
| 03:29 | would love to see , like a little Tony crime | |
| 03:32 | fighting pony . Totally so to review , um , | |
| 03:36 | when you're looking at a run on . You're looking | |
| 03:38 | at two independent clauses that air together in one sentence | |
| 03:42 | that are joined inappropriately without punctuation or conjunctions . Eso | |
| 03:46 | we bought nails . We bought a hammer . There's | |
| 03:49 | there's not really a place to know where the division | |
| 03:52 | between clauses is in that on , so the thing | |
| 03:57 | to do is tow . Either is to add some | |
| 03:58 | kind of is the Atacama on Cem Conjunction or to | |
| 04:04 | combine them using a semi colon the same deal with | |
| 04:07 | a comics place ? It's just that a comics place | |
| 04:10 | is a run on that hasn't been fixed all the | |
| 04:12 | way , right ? The Commons being used . But | |
| 04:16 | we need some bigger punctuation in place of the Kama | |
| 04:20 | , something like a semi colon . In order , | |
| 04:22 | Thio make a distinction between those two independent clauses . | |
| 04:26 | So that is how you identify and fix run ons | |
| 04:29 | and commerce places . You can learn anything . David | |
| 04:32 | out , Rosie out |
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