Revise Run-on Sentences English 12 English 10 Honors September 12, 2012 ! Directions: Copy the following run-on sentences below using the method given in parentheses. (1) In 1818, when she was twenty-one, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, "a masterpiece of horror,” the book book has been popular ever since. (Join with a coordinating conjunction.)

(2) The tale started as a parlor game, a group of friends sat by the fire telling ghost stories. (Join with a semicolon.)

(3) That night Mary had a vivid dream she imagined how a monster might be created by bringing a corpse back to life. (Join with a coordinating conjunction.) a (4) Many films center around Frankenstein's monster few of them deal with the book's serious themes. (Join with a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb)

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.