Time To Run-On Away
Middle School | Learning
| August 1, 2015
(Our English teacher is very frustrated that, despite being eighth graders, about half our class can’t seem to understand run-on sentences.)
Teacher: “YOU CAN’T CONNECT TWO SENTENCES WITH JUST A COMMA. How hard is that? If [Boy #1] can’t get this next question, [Boy #2], you can stomp on his feet.”
Boy #1: *nervous* “Okay…”
Teacher: “Is this a sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?”
(The sentence is ‘I ate caramel apples, my dentist will be mad.’)
Boy #1: “A sentence.”
(Teacher groans and slams her head into her desk.)
Teacher: “Stomp on his feet.”
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