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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 lakes
two of the biggest ones are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
these 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.)
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 16y agoA rambling sentence is one that is unnecessarily long (and often poorly contructed, too).
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∙ 13y agoMy sister keeps rambling on even thought she's been asked to be quiet.
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∙ 15y agoHe was rambling through the mall.
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