Question

Which of the following is not a run-on sentence?


We should get rid of Daylight Saving Time it is a bother, and lost sleep causes car accidents.


Are we supposed to spring forward or fall forward I can never remember how the time change works?


Daylight Saving Time is the best part of the year; there is more daylight in the evening that makes me feel good.


It is silly to continue Daylight Saving Time, for energy use is very different now than it was a century ago.

Answer 1

Two sentences are not run-ons: the third and the fourth.

- #3 is correct: the semicolon properly separates two independent clauses.
- #4 is correct: the comma + coordinating conjunction "for" correctly links the clauses.

#1 and #2 are run-ons (fused sentences). Fixes:
- #1: "We should get rid of Daylight Saving Time; it is a bother, and lost sleep causes car accidents." (or split into two sentences)
- #2: "Are we supposed to spring forward or fall forward? I can never remember how the time change works."