Run-on sentences

[potioncat]

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> Carol:
> So you were never taught about subordination (sometimes misleadingly called "sentence combining") as a technique for varying your sentences? that's unfortunate! 

Potioncat:
To be fair, we were taught to vary our sentence structure/length--but we were discouraged from very long, complex sentences. I'm speaking specifically about college. I think we actually wrote longer sentences in high school, which is probably where I read Faulkner. I enjoyed his books!---now I'm wondering if I still would since no one else here seems to.