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Re: Run-on
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Linda Di Desidero <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Sounds like the kind of grammar feedback you might get from a machine
reader! Definitely not a run-on. :)

Linda

Linda Di Desidero, PhD

Director, Leadership Communication Skills Center

Marine Corps University

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:04 PM, John Chorazy <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Vagaries... "two or more independent clauses in the sentence that need a
> period or semicolon," highlighting "remembering so". I agree that the
> sentence is formed just fine.​.. just a missing comma before "so" which
> still doesn't make a run-on.
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Dick Veit <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Even if it were a run-on, it's a *poem! . . . *But all parts seem fully
>> formed and properly connected. What are the specifics of the claim?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:11 PM, John Chorazy <[log in to unmask]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I've recently seen this sentence in a poem called a run-on and would
>>> dispute that claim. Any thoughts on a parsing would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> "There was a dream I had and want to keep remembering so / I write the
>>> image down, mindful that years from now nothing / will remain of it except
>>> this ink, and barely that."
>>>
>>> Thank you... enjoy the weekend.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Chorazy
>>> English III Honors, AP Lit
>>> Advisor, *Panther Press*
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>>> 973.616.6000
>>>
>>>
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> --
> John Chorazy
> English III Honors, AP Lit
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> Pequannock Township High School
> 973.616.6000
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