Examples
- A run-on sentence, without any punctuation or conjunction between "gas" and "we":
- My car is out of gas we cannot reach town before dark.
- A comma splice, which is considered a run-on sentence in English by some usage experts:
- It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark.
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