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- noun grammar an
ungrammatical sentence in which twoindependent clauses that should bejoined by either asemicolon or aconjunction or should be separate sentences are written as a single sentence, the clauses often being separated by acomma .
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- noun an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction
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oroboros commented on the word run-on sentence
Cushing Biggs Hassell’s thousand-page History of the Church of God (1886) is notable for a single sentence — on page 580, beginning “The nineteenth is the century …”
It’s six pages long, with 3,153 words, 360 commas, 86 semicolons, and six footnotes. Many regard it as the longest legitimate sentence ever published in a book.
Essentially it’s one long indictment of the 19th century, proving for Hassell that “after all our progress, this is still a very sinful and miserable world.” Why he felt he had to show this in a single sentence is not clear.
Here's it is.
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April 14, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word run-on sentence
*stunned*
April 15, 2010