RUN-ON SENTENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run-on sentence mean? 

• RUN-ON SENTENCE (noun)
  The noun RUN-ON SENTENCE has 1 sense:

1. an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction

  Familiarity information: RUN-ON SENTENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUN-ON SENTENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("run-on sentence" is a kind of...):

sentence (a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language)