Summary of Solutions for Run-on Sentences Run-on sentence: This cup is cracked, I don't want it. Method 1. Make two distinct sentences.    This cup is cracked. I don't want it.   Method 2. Compound the independent clauses.    This cup is cracked, so I don't want it.   Method 3. Embed one of the clauses using a dependent word.    If this cup is cracked, I don't want it.   Method 4. Embed one of the clauses by reducing a verb to a verbal.     I don't want this cracked cup.

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