Question

is this a run - on sentence? before the start of the revolutionary war, the british thought it would be easy to defeat the colonists, whereas britain had an army and the worlds most powerful navy, the colonists had neither. yes no

Explanation:

A run - on sentence incorrectly combines two or more independent clauses without proper punctuation or conjunctions. The given sentence has a proper subordinating conjunction "whereas" to connect related ideas and is punctuated correctly.

Answer:

no