Run-on Sentences: Return to Your Writing Read aloud the paragraph you wrote at the beginning of this chapter. Correct any run-on sentences that you find, looking especially at the three types of independent clauses that tempt people to write run-ons: those that give commands, those that start with pronoun subjects, and those that start with transitional expressions. Make any other improvements that the paragraph needs. Read a classmate's paragraph, looking for run-ons. Suggest ways of fixing them.

CONTENTS MAIN PAGE 9.1 Pretest 9.2 Your Writing: Describing a Process 9.3 Spotting Run-on Sentences 9.4 Correcting Run-on Sentences 9.5 Summary of Solutions 9.6 Avoiding Run-on Sentences 9.7 Review & Practice Part 1 9.7 Review & Practice Part 2 9.8 Fun With Grammar: The 200-Word Sentence 9.9 Return to Your Writing 9.10 Mastery Test on Run-ons