| Author |
Message |
Gregg Cattanach
Guest
|
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:58 am
Post subject: Is this a run-on sentence? |
|
|
Is this a run-on sentence?
It's one thing to post like that to a newsgroup, it's another to actually
publish a web page that looks that way.
--
Gregg C.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Mike Lyle
Guest
|
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:12 am
Post subject: Re: Is this a run-on sentence? |
|
|
Gregg Cattanach wrote:
| Quote: | Is this a run-on sentence?
It's one thing to post like that to a newsgroup, it's another to
actually publish a web page that looks that way.
|
To my taste, yes, it is. It calls for a semi-colon or a "but", or
both.
Mike. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Odysseus
Guest
|
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:11 am
Post subject: Re: Is this a run-on sentence? |
|
|
Mike Lyle wrote:
| Quote: |
Gregg Cattanach wrote:
Is this a run-on sentence?
It's one thing to post like that to a newsgroup, it's another to
actually publish a web page that looks that way.
To my taste, yes, it is. It calls for a semi-colon or a "but", or
both.
I'd say either one or the other, but not both. Choosing "but", one |
could even do without the comma, although the second clause here
might be a little long 'for comfort' without a preceding pause.
--
Odysseus
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Dr. Jai Maharaj
Guest
|
| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 3:55 am
Post subject: Re: Is this a run-on sentence? |
|
|
In article <416F4DEF.5BEADC1@yahoo-dot.ca>,
Odysseus <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca> posted:
| Quote: | Mike Lyle wrote:
Gregg Cattanach wrote:
Is this a run-on sentence?
It's one thing to post like that to a newsgroup, it's another to
actually publish a web page that looks that way.
To my taste, yes, it is. It calls for a semi-colon or a "but", or
both.
I'd say either one or the other, but not both. Choosing "but", one
could even do without the comma, although the second clause here
might be a little long 'for comfort' without a preceding pause.
|
I would probably write the example sentence this way:
"Posting in a newsgroup and actually publishing a web page
of the same material are different issues."
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bill Bonde ( ``This is th
Guest
|
| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:24 am
Post subject: Re: Is this a run-on sentence? |
|
|
Gregg Cattanach wrote:
| Quote: |
Is this a run-on sentence?
It's one thing to post like that to a newsgroup, it's another to actually
publish a web page that looks that way.
Is your goal to connect the two phrases intimately? If so, then modern |
post modernists would say GO FOR IT!!!
--
"In August Rudyard's listlessness called for another series of major and
very unpleasant medical examinations.... He later joked ... 'If this is
what Oscar Wilde went to prison for, he ought to have got the Victoria
Cross.'", Andrew Lycett, "Rudyard Kipling" |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| |
FAQ
Memberlist
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in