Running On & On

Running On & On

 

If a run-on sentence - 

Compound, complex; 

Subjects and 

Verbs and 

Pronouns and 

Adjectives and

Adverbs and

Conjunctions and

Exclamations;

Ellipses and non-terminal punctuation

Separating

Words, clauses, phrases

(some parenthetical),

Going on and on and

Never quitting,

Pushing forward,

Sometimes looping back and

Regrouping,

Regathering,

Restating what wasn't completely stated before -

If a run-on sentence can keep going

Then, so can I.  

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