is this a run - on sentence? according to legend, spanish explorer juan ponce de león was searching for the…

is this a run - on sentence? according to legend, spanish explorer juan ponce de león was searching for the fountain of youth, according to historians, he was more likely seeking political power. yes no

is this a run - on sentence? according to legend, spanish explorer juan ponce de león was searching for the fountain of youth, according to historians, he was more likely seeking political power. yes no

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A run - on sentence combines two or more independent clauses without proper punctuation or conjunctions. The given sentence has two independent clauses: "According to legend, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was searching for the Fountain of Youth" and "according to historians, he was more likely seeking political power." There is no proper conjunction or punctuation (like a semicolon or period) between them.

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yes