請教各位前輩,run-on sentence 的正確定義為何?
小弟在google上有查到兩個解釋:
1. run-on sentence: an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction.
2. A RUN-ON SENTENCE (sometimes called a "fused sentence") has at least two parts, either one of which can stand by itself (in other words, two independent clauses), but the two parts have been smooshed together instead of being properly connected.
另外在Dr.eye上也有解釋:
run-on sentence: 連寫句(指兩個主句之間不用連接詞或錯用標點的句子)
這三者的解釋小弟可以接受,但莫北北在上課時卻曾經講過一個run-on sentence:
"All the night he stayed in the wood and he feared to come home."
將google和Dr.eye上的解釋套到這莫北北的例子上就讓小弟不解了, 因為"he stayed in the wood" 和 "he feared to come home"這兩個是子句, 且中間也有用連接詞"and",為什麼也算是run-on sentence?
此外,小弟在google上也查到另一個解釋:
It is important to realize that the length of a sentence really has nothing to do with whether a sentence is a run-on or not; being a run-on is a structural flaw that can plague even a very short sentence:
''The sun is high, put on some sunblock."
這一句也是run-on sentence.
在看完這些解釋後小弟對run-on sentence的想法為:
1. 兩個子句間的連結不能用comma,也不能用對等連接詞(and, but, or, ...etc.)只能用semicolon.
2. 如果一定要將兩個子句連結起來,就要用compound predicate.
不知小弟的想法是否有誤,還煩請各位先進不吝指導.謝謝!