{"id":48,"date":"2006-05-16T21:53:47","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T21:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/?p=48"},"modified":"2013-10-13T21:55:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T21:55:43","slug":"running-on-parentheticals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/2006\/05\/16\/running-on-parentheticals\/","title":{"rendered":"Running on parentheticals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common source of run-on sentences is the inclusion of a parenthetical full sentence at the end of another sentence, for instance,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an example (there may be others).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This construction is always wrong. Separate the two sentences, as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an example. (There may be others.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or coordinate or subordinate the two, as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an example (though there may be others).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an example (and there may be others).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The following is not correct:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an example (however, there may be others).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Running on howevers\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/2004\/05\/25\/4\/\">\u201cHowever\u201d is an adverb<\/a>, not a subordinating conjunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common source of run-on sentences is the inclusion of a parenthetical full sentence at the end of another sentence, for instance, This is an example (there may be others). This construction is always wrong. Separate the two sentences, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/2006\/05\/16\/running-on-parentheticals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ggVW-M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/groundtruth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}