Correcting Run-On Sentences

1. Use a period. The easiest way to fix a run-on is to split the sentence into smaller sentences using a period.
2. Use a semicolon.
3. Use a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
4. Use a subordinating conjunction.

There are two types of run-on sentences: fused sentences and comma splices. A fused sentence occurs when independent clauses (indicated here with underlining) run together with no marks of punctuation or coordinating conjunctions to separate them. My professor read my paper she said it was excellent.

1. Answer, rejoinder, reply, response, retort all mean words used to meet a question, remark, charge, etc. An answer is a return remark: an answer giving the desired information. A rejoinder is a quick, usually clever answer or remark made in reply to another’s comment, not to a question.

1 : the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication. 2 : reply specifically : an answer to a reply.

(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding.

The Pleadings of Petitioner or plaintiff are already filed and the opposite party filed counter affidavit or Written Statement with new fats which are not correct according to Petitioner or Plaintiff, in reply to the Counter of Respondent the petitioner can file rejoinder denying the new facts which are not mentioned …

A rejoinder has a very limited purpose to serve. Except that it incorporates the plea of denial or explanation, by itself, it cannot plead any new or fresh fact, unless permitted by the Court.

The answer made by a defendant in the second stage of Common-Law Pleading that rebuts or denies the assertions made in the plaintiff’s replication. The rejoinder allows a defendant to present a more responsive and specific statement challenging the allegations made against him or her by the plaintiff.

Replication is a pleading by plaintiff in answer to defendant’s plea. ‘Rejoinder’ is a second pleading by defendant in answer to plaintiff’s reply i.e. replication.

Further rejoinder is not a part of pleadings.

Set-off means a claim by the defendant against the plaintiff or a plea in defence available to the defendant. It is a cross-claim between the parties to the suit regarding their recovery of money. It is the destruction of the debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors to one other.

In Common-Law Pleading, the response of a plaintiff to the defendant’s plea in an action at law, or to the defendant’s answer in a suit in Equity. The plaintiff had an opportunity to respond in a paper called a replication. The modern equivalent is known as the reply.