Wednesday Fox Hollow with Zack, and it went great. Zack got new shoes, which probably helped. I realized about six minutes up The Hill, when I started slipping around, that I had worn my regular shoes instead of my trail shoes, which ultimately probably helped my time, which was 7:48, my best uphill split of that ever. 7:30 down as we went carefully, and then on the way back Zack picked it up so I gladly went with him, and we went 6:48 for the first mile (on super-soft bark) and then something like 6:15 pace the next 3/4 mile. Gave us a lot of confidence for Saturday!
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by the way, i think your second sentence is grammatically incorrect. Surely a run-on sentence.
ReplyDeleteThe first sentence is a phrase; the second sentence is a complete sentence; the third sentence, to which I assume you were referring, is actually a complete sentence, and though it is long, it is not a run-on. The fourth and fifth sentences are also only phrases. So pretty much the sentence you mentioned and the sentence you were thinking of were the only two grammatically correct sentences in the post.
ReplyDelete(I think I'll just leave the grammar in your post alone.)
Hah my grammar doesn't matter because I am not a noted grammarian like yourself. I am still not buying that this is correct grammatically:
ReplyDeleteI realized about six minutes up The Hill, when I started slipping around, that I had worn my regular shoes instead of my trail shoes, which ultimately probably helped my time, which was 7:48, my best uphill split of that ever.
I am pretty sure you need to use some dashes or emdashes or whatever they are called (--). But if you'll still continue to assert you can use 800 commas in that sentence in that fashion, I'll accept it.
It's an ugly sentence, to be sure, but it is grammatically correct. A run-on sentence is two or more sentences put together with a comma or no punctuation at all, instead of a semicolon or full stop. Since only one of the clauses in the sentence in question could be a sentence in and of itself (the first), it is not a run-on sentence. Consider this sentence:
ReplyDeleteI realized, when I started, that I wore shoes, which helped my time, which was 1 hour, which is good.
It's still an ugly sentence, but since it is shorter it doesn't seem as much like a run-on, even though it has the same structure.
Anyway, a much better option in the first place would have been to parse it into two sentences:
I realized about six minutes up The Hill, when I started slipping around, that I had worn my regular shoes instead of my trail shoes. This ultimately probably helped my time, which was 7:48, my best uphill split of that ever.
So how's "work" going?
hah. it's going slowly as always.
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