English-2
Grade-8
Easy

Question

He has been working hard for us for the past six years; no one even comes close to him when it comes to being perfect on work.
This is a run-on sentence.

  1. True
  2. False

hintHint:

Run on sentences occur when two independent clauses are joined improperly.

The correct answer is 'False'.


    Solution : False
    He has been working hard for us for the past six years; no one even comes close to him when it comes to being perfect on work.
    This is not a run on sentence . Here, both the independent clauses " He has been working hard for us for the past six years"  and " no one even comes close to him when it comes to being perfect on work" are joined properly using proper punctuation mark " ; " .

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