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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Run-on sentence

At school we are taught that a complete sentence is made up of one subject and one verb. So when I read this following sentence on a magazine, I was baffled, because it has 2 verbs.

Sentence: We understand how reducing your overhead keeps a roof over theirs.

It looks like to me that "We", the subject, and "Understand" and "keeps" are the 2 verbs in this sentence. Is this a run-on sentence?

Thanks for helping
  

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Hi, At school we are taught that a complete sentence is made up of one subject and one verb. This is not true. Perhaps you may have misunderstood your teacher?

— Clive

  • Hi, At school we are taught that a complete sentence is made up of one subject and one verb.
  • This is not true.
  • Perhaps you may have misunderstood your teacher?
  • Ask your teacher abour these simple examples.
  • Mary likes cake.
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Hi,
At school we are taught that a complete sentence is made up of one subject and one verb. This is not true. Perhaps you may have misunderstood your teacher?

Ask your teacher abour these simple examples.
Mary likes cake.
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Thanks, Olive

The examples you provided makes sense to me.

Mary likes cake. (Subject (mary)-Verb (likes))

Tom likes cookies. (Subject (Tom)-Verb (likes))

Mary likes cake and Tom likes cookies (subject (mary)-verb(likes) conjunction (and) subject(tom) likes(verb)



But in the example I provided doesn't make sense
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Hi,
in the example I provided doesn't make sense to me:



"We understand how reducing your overhead keeps a roof over theirs."



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