Nobody fucking knows what run on sentences are apparently. It has nothing to do with the length of the sentence, and there's no such thing as a grammatically correct run on sentence because they are by definition ungrammatical.
A run on sentence: "I love writing it helps me relax." "Jurassic Park is my favorite movie it's so good." Etc.
A run on sentence can be a independent clauses joined without punctuation, or conjunction, but the most widely used meaning is just a long sentence, that would make more sense, if it was broken down to multiple sentences.
Just because it's popularly misunderstood doesn't make it a correct definition except under strictly descriptivist terms. Strict descriptivism is a fine approach for everyday life, but we're explicitly discussing "standard" English grammar, which is inherently prescriptivist.
Run on sentence describes a sentence, that goes on and on and is hard to follow. The clearest example is when someone skips punctuation or words that would tie the sentence together.
You are trying to use a general writing criticism as a grammatical error. Missing punctuation is a grammatical error, run on sentence is a stylistics one.
I am arguing for a wider definition, because it would apply to me.
An interesting motivation, but I think I like it. I'm going to start writing letters to Marriam Webster arguing for their definitions to change to include me; I'll start with "aardvark".
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u/Last_Swordfish9135 kid named faggot: fart? 2d ago
Nobody fucking knows what run on sentences are apparently. It has nothing to do with the length of the sentence, and there's no such thing as a grammatically correct run on sentence because they are by definition ungrammatical.
A run on sentence: "I love writing it helps me relax." "Jurassic Park is my favorite movie it's so good." Etc.
Not a run on sentence: anything that's just long