1/23/2016

An express train hurtled by. His hat was grabbed by a gust of air and about to escape, he quickly snatched it and put it back onto his head again.

*In this sentence here would be considered a run on sentence. This is because the part written in green and the part written in blue are both independent clauses, which mean they can both be a full sentece on their own. There are two ways you can fix this:

1) Place a period between the two so they become their own seperate sentences. It would then look like this: 

His hat was grabbed by a gust of air and about to escape. He quickly snatched it and put it back onto his head again. 

2) You can place a comma and conjunction between the two independent clauses to connect them and make one sentence. Some conjunctions include: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, as well as so. Once you do that, your sentence should look like this:

His hat was grabbed by a gust of air and about to escape, but he quickly snatched it and put it back onto his head again.

(( You would use "but" for this sentence because his action, snatching the hat, was in contrast to the hat orignally being grabbed by the wind. You could also use "so" because snatching his hat was his reaction to it being snatched by the wind.))

               I hope this was helpful. If you have an questions feel free to message me!