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Sentence Skills, Form A book cover
Sentence Skills, Form A, 7/e
John Langan, Atlantic Cape Community College
Run-Ons

Writing On and Offline

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can send your work to him or her by clicking the "Submit Answers" button. If you are working offline, you will have to copy your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and paste them (CTRL-V) into a text document to retain a record of your work.





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Activity 1:

Take a look at this passage from James Joyce's Ulysses. What's going on here? Why do you think he's using all these run-on sentences? What would one lose by "correcting" them? Is this style appropriate to a typical college essay?
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Activity 2:

Directions: For additional help with identifying and avoiding run-ons, visit The Purdue University Writing Lab. Take notes on what you've learned during your visit.








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