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This Week in Run-on Sentences

The MTA are masters of the run-on sentence. For example:

ThisisTimesSquaretransferisavailabletothe1237ACEN RandWtrainsandtheshuttletoGrandCentralthisisaBrooklyn-bound
Qtrainthenextstopis34thStreetstandclearoftheclosingdoorsplease.

But it’s not just auditory run-on sentences. In print, the MTA doesn’t believe in things like “punctuation” or “independent clauses,” either.

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A little comma would go a long way, too.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 2:30 pm and is filed under Grammar Police on Patrol. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “This Week in Run-on Sentences”

  1. May 14th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    says:

    Not having to pause, for a comma, could be the difference between surviving the litter fire and, you know, being horribly burned to death in the litter fire.

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