Example of a rambling run-on sentence: Well, when you think about it if you think at all, but maybe you won't you wouldn't think a caterpillar with all its legs would mind walking but you see caterpillars stop that's because they get tired just like people do.
A clearer sentence might be: Despite having many legs, I think caterpillars get tired of walking.
A rambling, run-on sentence:
Why must you keep rambling on?He was always rambling.
The man would not stop rambling about his past life.
Sometimes the professor would spend too much time rambling on -- talking too much, about why this was her favourite kind of math.
His speech was so rambling and incoherent that no one could understand what he was trying to say.
"Rambling" is an adjective. The following sentences provide examples of its use:Ray launched into a long and rambling explanation of why he was late.We took a rambling trail that ended at the river.
The Rambling Boys was created in 1957.
Not all long sentences are rambling sentences. For example, although this next sentence is long, it is formed correctly and does not ramble.Example sentence:With the two biggest nearby bodies of water being Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, many students wonder what makes the official state borders for Canada and for New York in the United States.Example of a rambling sentence that should be split into two or three sentences:New York has many lakes and two of the biggest ones are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario andthese lakes make up part of the border between New York and Canada.Rambling sentences often have several connecting words, such as "and".A rambling sentence often makes a person have to stop at an unnatural place to take a breath.Rambling sentences usually have no natural pauses. A natural pause is often shown by use of a comma. But a writer cannot just put in commas to make an officially rambling sentence into a satisfactory one.Example with commas, which is still leaves this as a rambling sentence:New York has many lakes, and two of the biggest ones are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario,and these lakes make up part of the border between New York and Canada. (Adding commas never corrects a rambling sentence.)Rambling sentences often seem to include "everything a person has to say on the subject" and shows that the person hasn't taken time to put his thoughts into polished sentences. These rambling sentences could become better if each thought was expanded in some way.The separate thoughts in the example sentence are these:New York has many lakestwo of the biggest ones are Lake Erie and Lake Ontariothese lakes make up part of the border between New York and Canada.Each "part" above could make separate sentences, but they would sound choppy. Instead, the writer should try to naturally expand on each thought, if possible. OR, the writer could combine two parts into one better sentence. Note the punctuation; commas make natural breathing spots.Examples that are better written:1. Although New York has many lakes, two of the biggest ones are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. These two lakes make up part of the border between New York and Canada.2. The two biggest lakes in New York make up part of the border between New York and Canada. (Note "New York has many lakes" is a minor thought and could be left out, as I did here.)
Old Rambling House was created in 1965.
The duration of Rambling Rose - film - is 1.87 hours.
The duration of Just Rambling Along is 540.0 seconds.
Rambling 'Round Radio Row was created in 1932.
Just Rambling Along was created on 1918-11-03.