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Just trying to understand the Option 1: "Mary Elizabeth Braddon was primarily a novelist, she augmented the income she earned writing fiction by composing plays and essays and editing two literary magazines."
I do not find any grammatical error in this sentence. So such sentences, which are separated by commas, considered as run-on in GMAT test?
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-Mary is a good girl, she helps everyone.
-Bunuel is popular in GMAT club, he has earned lots of kudos.
Are these statements not correct in GMAT?
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Just trying to understand the Option 1: "Mary Elizabeth Braddon was primarily a novelist, she augmented the income she earned writing fiction by composing plays and essays and editing two literary magazines."
I do not find any grammatical error in this sentence. So such sentences, which are separated by commas, considered as run-on in GMAT test?
Eg:
-Mary is a good girl, she helps everyone.
-Bunuel is popular in GMAT club, he has earned lots of kudos.
Are these statements not correct in GMAT?


Hi Pankaj,

Yes the sentences that you have quoted are incorrect. In Gmat we need a FANBOYS (or, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)conjunction to join 2 clauses. The sentence that you have quoted is a run on sentence with no connector, hence wrong.

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Thanks Ankita. This is helpful!

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Just trying to understand the Option 1: "Mary Elizabeth Braddon was primarily a novelist, she augmented the income she earned writing fiction by composing plays and essays and editing two literary magazines."
I do not find any grammatical error in this sentence. So such sentences, which are separated by commas, considered as run-on in GMAT test?
Eg:
-Mary is a good girl, she helps everyone.
-Bunuel is popular in GMAT club, he has earned lots of kudos.
Are these statements not correct in GMAT?


Hi Pankaj,

Yes the sentences that you have quoted are incorrect. In Gmat we need a FANBOYS (or, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)conjunction to join 2 clauses. The sentence that you have quoted is a run on sentence with no connector, hence wrong.

Hope it helps.
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Bunuel why is "although" needed in the sentence???

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