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THE FUSED SENTENCE

Recognize a fused sentence when you find one.

A fused sentence, also called a run-on, occurs when a writer has connected two main
clauses with no punctuation. A main clause provides a complete thought, so you
cannot have two such clauses carelessly collide in one sentence.

The error has this pattern:

Main Clause + Ø + Main Clause .

Here is an example:

Driving home from school, Brett vowed to protect the fragile


ecosystem all the while the tires of his SUV flattened the toads
hopping on the wet streets.

The first main clause is Brett vowed to protect the fragile ecosystem, and the second
is the tires of his SUV flattened the toads hopping on the wet streets. Notice that the
two clauses run together with no punctuation.

Know how to fix a fused sentence.

Correcting a fused sentence is easy. Just choose one of these four strategies:

P ERIOD + C APITAL L ETTER

First, you can break the error into two separate sentences, like this:

Driving home from school, Brett vowed to protect the fragile


ecosystem. All the while, the tires of his SUV flattened the toads
hopping on the wet streets.

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C OMMA + C OORDINATING C ONJUNCTION

Another good option is to connect the two main clauses with a comma and a
coordinating conjunction:

Driving home from school, Brett vowed to protect the fragile


ecosystem, yet all the while, the tires of his SUV flattened the toads
hopping on the wet streets.

S EMICOLON

You can also use a semicolon ( ; ), a mark of punctuation as strong as a period:

Driving home from school, Brett vowed to protect the fragile


ecosystem; all the while, the tires of his SUV flattened the toads
hopping on the wet streets.

S UBORDINATION

Your last option is to use a subordinate conjunction. This method reduces one
of the two main clauses to a subordinate clause, an incomplete thought:

Driving home from school, Brett vowed to protect the fragile


ecosystem as the tires of his SUV flattened the toads hopping on the
wet streets.

All four strategies above will fix a fused sentence. Each individual error that you
correct, however, will require that you analyze all the elements—length of
passage, length of other sentences, repetition of words, cadence, etc.—as you
pick the best strategy for that specific piece of writing.

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