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Grammar Girl's Top 10 Language Myths:
10. A run-on sentence is a really long sentence.Wrong! They can actually be quite short. In a run-on sentence, independent clauses are squished together without the help of punctuation or a conjunction. If you write “I am short he is tall,” as one sentence without a semicolon, colon, or dashbetween the two independent clauses, it's a run-on sentence even though it only has six words. (Seeepisode 49 for more details.)
9. You shouldn't start a sentence with the word “however.” Wrong! It's fine to start a sentence with “however” so long as you use a comma after it when it means "nevertheless." (See episode 58 for more details.)
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