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  1. Newsgroups: misc.writing
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uchinews!kimbark!elle
  3. From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
  4. Subject: Re: Run on sentences
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov21.180438.18377@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  7. Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
  8. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  9. References: <380.2841.uupcb@synapse.org>
  10. Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:04:38 GMT
  11. Lines: 11
  12.  
  13. Ian Murray (ian.murray@synapse.org)  writes:
  14. >[Opening sentence of 'Ex Oblivione' by H.P. Lovecraft]
  15. >Is this a run-on sentence or what???
  16.  
  17. "What," apparently.
  18.  
  19. Perhaps you'd like to describe what you consider grammatically wrong
  20. with it?  (Hint:  dependent clauses do not a run-on make.)
  21.  
  22. --                    __
  23. Ellen Keyne Seebacher \/             elle@midway.uchicago.edu
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