a sentence that includes two separate subjects, rarely connected, that can easily be split into two separate sentences that often make more sense when split. These affect our writing and reading a lot, mainly the reading though. So run-ons affect the flow of writing, and they affect how we write a sentence, as when one writes on a piece of binder paper a sentence that spans five lines and could easily be taken as a paragraph if they break it up. In reading, the main worry is when the reader doesn’t have any pause between subjects, or a clear end to one subject, so they may get desperately confused by a run-on with 2 or more subjects and no break between them, because readers may try to connect the different subjects.
There are two ways to fix a run-on properly—split it up using a period, or split the sentence using a semicolon. (See next)
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