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Rambling Sentences

How do I find and fix rambling sentences?

What is a rambling sentence?

Can I ever use rambling sentences?

  • Rambling Sentence: an exceedingly long sentence that contains multiple independent clauses connected by conjunctions.
  • Example: I went to the homecoming game, and I saw the Redbirds win, but the seniors won homecoming week again because they have the most people working on the float, and the homecoming dance is going to be tomorrow.
  • You can use rambling sentences in your writing if it for a rhetorical purpose.
  • Use in dialogue and inner thought
  • Creates strong emotions
  • Foreshadowing events
  • How to find rambling sentences:
  • Read it out loud
  • Count the number of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
  • How to fix rambling sentences once you find them:
  • Take the coordinating conjunctions at the ending of a complete thought and replace them with periods.
  • Create compound sentences.
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