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Pokh Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

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The speculative fever of the Roaring Twenties infected rich and poor alike; vast quantities of people were dangerously overextended, credit was absurdly easy to obtain, and most brokerage houses required only ten percent cash for stocks bought on "margin."

Guys I am lost... why is above sentence not run on ?
  

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What part are you exactly not getting properly? Rich and poor alike = it concerned everyone. "To overextend" means "to burden one with extra work".

— Fandorin

  • What part are you exactly not getting properly?
  • Rich and poor alike = it concerned everyone.
  • "To overextend" means "to burden one with extra work".
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What part are you exactly not getting properly? Rich and poor alike = it concerned everyone. "To overextend" means "to burden one with extra work".
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pokhwhy is above sentence not run on ?
By some people's standards it well may be considered a run-on sentence; however, you can always have clauses connected by "and", and that's not considered a run-on sentence:

Credit was absurdly easy to obtain, and most brokerage houses required only ten percent cash for stocks bought on "margin."

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Hello, Jim. What is "run-on" sentences?
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Those are two entirely separate sentences. Notice that there is a semicolon separating alike and vast, not a comma.
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CalifJim
pokhwhy is above sentence not run on ?
By some people's standards it well may be considered a run-on sentence; however, you can always have clauses connected by "and", and that's not considered a run-on sentence
Cj, what do you think about the sentence below ..? Is it correct?

Margaret Courtney-Clarke has t
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Two "and"s in a row is rather odd, but other than that, the sentence isn't bad.

CJ
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That's a great example of why you should use serial commas, heh.
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