Which of these is a run-on sentence?
A. I thought about what he'd said soon I realized he was right.
B. Before lunch, I played volleyball; after lunch I did again.
C. I went home and ate and ate.
D. You and I and the whole team will go.
A.
You need a period or a semicolon after "said."
The run-on sentence is:
C. I went home and ate and ate.
A run-on sentence occurs when two independent clauses are joined together without appropriate punctuation or conjunction. In this case, "I went home and ate" and "ate" are two independent clauses that are joined without any proper punctuation or conjunction.
To identify which of the options is a run-on sentence, we need to understand what a run-on sentence is. A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined together without appropriate punctuation or conjunctions.
Option A: "I thought about what he'd said soon I realized he was right."
This sentence combines two independent clauses ("I thought about what he'd said" and "I realized he was right") without any punctuation or conjunction. Therefore, this is a run-on sentence.
Option B: "Before lunch, I played volleyball; after lunch I did again."
This sentence correctly combines two independent clauses ("Before lunch, I played volleyball" and "After lunch, I did again") using a semicolon to separate them. Therefore, this is not a run-on sentence.
Option C: "I went home and ate and ate."
This sentence is made up of two independent clauses ("I went home" and "ate and ate") joined together using a coordinating conjunction ("and"). As there is proper conjunction, this is not a run-on sentence.
Option D: "You and I and the whole team will go."
This sentence contains only one independent clause ("You and I and the whole team will go"). Since there are no additional independent clauses or improper punctuation, this is not a run-on sentence.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A: "I thought about what he'd said soon I realized he was right."