Topic: Complex and not run-on sentence
A complex sentence is not a run-on when all subjects and verbs can be identified -- even if a verb or a subject is implied
Simple form: Neither Bob nor Bill scattered the litter but rather Joe (did).
This IS NOT ambiguously interpreted as: Bob and Bill did not scatter litter but scattered Joe.
Correct?
Complex:
No parade had passed by the Club in a decade; neither accident nor deliberation scattered the litter about Boynton Beach but rather the negligent nonchalance of people who did not care or could not care about this town in South Florida that did not come into being as did the jewels in the tropics, Palm Beach to the north and Delray Beach to the south.
Neither accident nor deliberation scattered the litter but rather negligent nonchalance of [...] (did).
Correct?
