Most people find grammatical explanations of run-on sentences difficult to understand and absorb.
Many people mistakenly believe that longer, more complicated sentences sound more authoritative than shorter, more direct sentences. They believe that only long, complicated sentences are taken seriously. This is simply not true. With the possible exception of certain types of fiction, all writing, at its best, is simple and direct . To write in this manner, you must learn to first recognize and then eliminate run-on sentences.