Run-on Sentences Inside This Chapter Begin here to navigate through each section. Pretest Your Writing: Describing a Process Spotting Run-on Sentences Correcting Run-on Sentences Summary of Solutions Avoiding Run-on Sentences Review & Practice Part 1 & Part 2 Fun With Grammar: The 200-Word Sentence Return to Your Writing Mastery Test on Run-ons A run-on sentence contains two or more independent clauses with no connectors between them. If independent clauses are not separated into distinct sentences by a period, then they must be connected by a conjunction or by a semicolon. Eliminating run-on sentences from your writing will make your thoughts easier to follow and understand. Chapter 9 helps you to: recognize run-on sentences. choose among four ways of correcting run-on sentences. avoid writing the three main types of run-on sentences.