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Settle a bet with a feisty coworker.
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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Is the following a run-on sentence, or not?
- Careful, the beverage you are about to enjoy is extremely hot.
P.S. If you are this coworker, shut the fuck up or I'll douse you with a beverage I would have enjoyed.
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I think that a semi-colon is probably the more appopriate punctuation, but I don't think it's a run-on. My second choice would be colon. Two independent clauses should be separated by a conjunction, a colon, or a semi-colon. I guess it depends on whether or not you think "careful", with the implied "be", is an independent or dependent clause.
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