1950 Magnet Yearbook

JARVIS C OLLEGIATE 4 9
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RUN ON SENTENCE!
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Om' grammatical error thai teachernever
fo r~w a mi pupils never fail to
ma ke is the run-on sente nce, which reacht'r"
"'IY i" caused by tht' pupil's w r i tin~ in
such a h ur r v 10 /{t"t hi" thou/{ht" down
before he forg'd ';' them. that as a result.
he never ends the ...rn tence till he ha s put
lhl' idea down in full. which ordi narilv
does not ta ke Ion/{. bUI in the heat of a
"brilliant" inspiration rna)" KO on for
pag't''', which is the subjec t of this compo
sition. ill wh ich I "hall endeavour to
point out tht, fault" o f the run -on "..nrenee.
which arc. mainlv: that the reader
is out of breath bl·fon:ht· /{et" anvwh erc
near thl ' end o f the sentence. and ..0 he
ha.. to take ;1 breath be fore he comes to
a pause: anI! it is an unforgiveable "ill
in lite-rature. and also WTY discouraging
10 the reader. wh o ha s to look at a ..olid
block o f "aipt which, had the author
only stopped the thought with a pe riod.
in..tcacl o f a comma or semi -colon . and
math- a new paragraph . would ha n ' been
much l ,asicr on the readcr : all of which
brinKs out my point about. the r Ull-OII
sentence. which is a \ erv bad I' TTo r because
it also reveals a ';t'ad strot1g mind
which has 110 caut ion . and a " a result doc s
m;lIlY fool ish th ing-s, a s wel l a s olher
faults of whil'h I l'ould It'll, but :\fr.
:\kKt'r ral,h ("r will soon lw a n'u"ing- Illt' o f
rambling' and ineolll'(t'lIl'", which would
Iwwr do Ill,...·au,;(· :\Ir. :\kKt'r racht'r i"
alwap r ig-hi. I'XCt'pt whe ll hI' ,;ay" tha t il
i" WT\' t"as\' !O fall into Ih.. habil o f writ ­
ill ,2" rtlll-o ri "t'lllt'net·s. ht'C;m,;.e the mos.t
difficult t'"''''' r han' t"\"t"r wrilh:n ha ,;.
1ll,'1:n Ihi;; o n~" wht'f(' 1 t rit"{1 to eont ain
('\"t'T\·thing in OIW sentt'nce,
BUI I can't.
LEON LEBRou r
I thi"k bad ' 10