Sentences with phrase «of run on sentences»

Seems like a bunch of run on sentences jammed together so I stopped reading.

I quit my mentally debilitating corporate job last week, no clue if I'll be landing a dietetic internship or getting into a masters program, partially broke, fully single, directionless as to where I'll be a few months from now or even next week, emotions running at an extreme and overall just a mess of run on sentences.

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«There are Baha'is rotting in jail on a 20 - year sentence on trumped up charges simply because they have a certain set of faith beliefs that run against the theocracy in Iran.»

A Church of England vicar on the run after being sentenced to three - years jail time for sexually assaulting... More

A Church of England vicar on the run after being sentenced to three - years jail time for sexually assaulting a 15 - year - old boy in India, is believed to be somewhere in the UK.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

And I freely admit I sometimes use too many extraneous, space - consuming, overly - descriptive, qualifying, words or sentences written quickly and in a stream - of - conscientiousness, run - on sort of fashion with occasional typos mostly due to fatigue of being up way too late (which also explains this post in general) after a long day of political discussion which refreshingly had little religious content though of course there is often much overlap between the two but posting is barely a hobby but more of an occasional passtime so now i wonder if what I write could be considered abuse as I've can't really recall seeing much if any sorrt of «text filibustering» not that this is exactly filibustering more a spontaneous text performance response joke and meant in jest to be absurdly long and useless so of course i hope you appreciate the spirit.

The very fact that this is grammatically a run - on sentence places the listener in a situation of openness: the specific clauses of the sentence could go on endlessly.

When I went to look for the post last night — to edit it for run - on sentences and my typical overuse of commas — it was gone.

While he had to verbalize instantly into a microphone what he saw, in the case of Aaron's home run, because it was inevitable, Hamilton had an opportunity to prepare a sentence so perfect that if it worked, if enough people heard it and commented on it, it had an excellent chance to slip into Bartlett's Familiar Quotations alongside «One small step...»

Stats Sentence I'm not sure how their volleyball squad is but based on the fact they have been good in virtually everything I have no reason to believe they don't have a run in them for the Knockout Rounds of the Tourney.

He pleaded guilty to three counts of defilement and was sentenced, on his own plea, by the Court presided over by Ms. Audrey Kocuvie - Tay, to 25 years imprisonment on each count; to run concurrently.

The court convicted Nwobike of 12 counts bordering on the offence, sentenced him to one month's imprisonment on each of the 12 counts but said the sentences would run concurrently.

The past president of the Prison Governors» Association said: «The blanket ban on sentenced prisoners» voting is out of step in a modern prison service and runs counter to resettlement work which aims to ensure that prisoners lead a responsible, law - abiding life on release.»

The report added, «From counts 45 to 74, the convict was fined N500, 000 or 12 months imprisonment on each count while on counts 75 to 105, he is to pay a fine of N200, 000 or 12 months imprisonment on each count with the exception of count 97 which appeared to be duplication.The sentences will run concurrently, meaning he will serve a maximum of two years.»

WHITE PLAINS — Condemning him for having «corrupted the Democratic process,» a federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Malcolm A. Smith, former majority leader of the New York State Senate, to seven years in prison for consenting to the payment of tens of thousands of dollars to Republican Party leaders to permit him, as a registered Queens Democrat, to run for mayor in 2013 on their party's line.

Justice Inyang Ekwo, who presided over the case at the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, found him guilty of 77 counts and sentenced him to 2 years imprisonment on each count, to run concurrently.

This way you always have the option of letting the stragglers drop off the end of your list if you run short of time, a bit like a newspaper editor chopping the end of a report one sentence at a time until it fits into the space on the page!

«Most desk work requires non-movement — typing, writing, even talking on the phone (as one can run out of air trying to complete a sentence!).

Our mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers (depending on the age of my audience here) are always starting sentences with, «Back in my day», to which we generally take as our cue to tune out and start running scenes of Modern Family in our minds.

I think a few things have inspired it (prepare yourself for the longest run on sentence ever): my secret desire to move to a brand new house that is dashed by the fact that I will never be able to sell the money trap I live in love my neighborhood, my not so secret abhorrence of

Acne Studios leather jacket, Silence + Noise t - shirt dress, Zara mules, Céline sunglasses Hate to make this post a lot shorter than I normally would but I'm currently running on low levels of energy (surprise, surprise, always before I'm about to travel) and I'm not sure if these sentences I'm forming are actually coherent.

Her estranged father, a wealthy white - collar criminal of some undefined variety, was recently run down by a car and killed on the eve of his sentencing under circumstances only she seems to find unsuspicious, and she has to spend the weekend on the 25 - acre property before she can sell it.

Released: February 10 Cast: Keanu Reeves, Common, Ruby Rose, Ian McShane Director: Chad Stahelski (John Wick) Why it's great: A run - on sentence of gun - fu prose, the first John Wick became an instant action classic when it dropped two years ago.

Through John Logan's sharp - as - a-razor script filled with hilarious run - on sentences and oddball sensibilities, the film is at once a reverential tribute to a genre and a wholly original piece of work.

With Bradley Manning recently sentenced, Edward Snowden on the run and Assange still holed up in an Ecuadorian embassy, all as more continues to leak about the reach and extent of the NSA's nefarious activities, this movie couldn't be arriving at a better time.

Though, still, at least I didn't create an unparsed wall of text or run - on sentence.

The movie is the cinematic equivalent of a run - on sentence that never pauses for a breather.

Translation: a run - on sentence for a logline with a caravan of utterly expendable characters that don't matter to each other in the slightest.

John doesn't like this, but it turns out the DA Joanne Keegan (Susan Sarandon) runs a policy where people can only get reduced sentences by snitching on other criminals, and that Jason was set up because of this policy.

There are some who are discouraged by grammarians that cruise blogs in search of run - on sentences and tense errors.

I use the whiteboard to keep a running total of how much was bid on each sentence and how much money each team has from time to time.

Lesson 1 - Word classes and clauses (simple sentences) Lesson 2 - Combining simple sentences (compound and complex sentences) Lesson 3 - Subordination and positioning of additional clauses Lesson 4 - preventing and fixing run on's, fragments and splices.

In terms of language, this means focusing on word usage, «to be» verbs, run - on sentences, repeated words, and more, rather than the content.

They move the information around, creating as many sentences as possible, and the resulting lesson touches upon everything from run - ons and fragments to sentence length variation to use of commas.

In the year 4 script, the sentence structure is quite basic and full of run - on sentences of the type «and then he did this and then that and then this and then that!»

Sentence fragments and run - on sentences are some of the most common mistakes English language learners make.

It starts with a short review of sentence fragments, run - on sentences, and complete sentences that includes a sentence sorting activity.

The diagnostic covers a number of critical sentence structure skills, such as fragments and run - on sentences.

One made me utterly self - conscious about appealing to the senses, another to run on sentences and the use of small words, and another baffled me with her attention to character building.

This is the eBook metadata equivalent of a run - on sentence.

Use of run - on sentences just illustrates that you either don't know or don't care about grammar.

Whilst there are some disparities between the two — Wool hasn't had a print run prior to its acquisition by a major publisher, for instance, while Fifty Shades of Grey was available as print on demand before Vintage bought the rights to it — a vaguely comparable publishing model is probably the least distressing outcome to any sentence that begins «Fifty Shades of Grey - influenced», so it might be best not to question it too much.

Sorry, that was a bit of a run - on sentence.

I'm not much of one for stream of consciousness or run - on sentences, but the emotions are certainly palpable.

In December, Chilinski received a sentence of five years on 91 counts of animal cruelty and neglect for running what law enforcement called a puppy mill.

Think of that verbose and badly punctuated run - on sentence.

Join us for a conversation between artist Elizabeth Moran and curator Alessandro Facente on the occasion of the exhibition Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind, a solo show of recent work by Elizabeth Moran.

I end up either writing very personal, very context - intensive one - liners or pouring an hour of intense ritalin - powered spirits into some long - winded essays on abstract subjects sprinkled with run - on sentences and strange uses of propositions (I'm still getting used to «naturally» writing «on», «in» or «at»).

In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book «the finest work of Surrealist fiction,» noting that de Chirico «invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novel... his long run - on sentences, stitched together with semi-colons, allow a cinematic freedom of narration... his language, like his painting, is invisible: a transparent but dense medium containing objects that are more real than reality.»