Is this a run-on sentence?
Is this a run-on sentence?
"Stomach cancer, for instance, was highly prevalent in certain populations until the late nineteenth century, likely the result of several carcinogens found in pickling reagents and preservatives and exacerbated by endemic and contagious infection with a bacterium that causes stomach cancer."
I found this on a website. I understand the meaning, but shouldn't it be as follows?:
Stomach cancer, for instance, was highly prevalent in certain populations until the late nineteenth century. It is likely (that) the result of several carcinogens found in pickling reagents and preservatives and exacerbated by endemic and contagious infection with a bacterium that causes stomach cancer.
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Snappy Is this a run-on sentence? No. '.
- Snappy Is this a run-on sentence?
- No.
- '.
- That makes a non-restrictive relative clause.
- until the late nineteenth century, which was likely the result of several carcinogens CJ
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SnappyIs this a run-on sentence?
No. It's OK to omit 'which was' in the expression 'which was likely the result of ...'. That makes a non-restrictive relative clause.
until the late nineteenth century, which was likely the result of several carcinogens
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