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Sentence Structure

Sentence Structure. What is the difference between a sentence and a fragment or a run on?. What is a sentence? . A sentence is a word or word group that contains a subject and a verb and that expresses a complete thought . When I saw the snake, I jerked around and sprinted home.

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Sentence Structure

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  1. Sentence Structure What is the difference between a sentence and a fragment or a run on?

  2. What is a sentence? • A sentence is a word or word group that contains a subject and a verb and that expresses a complete thought. • When I saw the snake, I jerked around and sprinted home. • I zigzagged my way through the line.

  3. What is a fragment? • A sentence fragmentis a group of words that looks like a sentence but does not contain both a subject and a verb or does not express a complete thought. • Sailing around the world. • Notice: who is doing the sailing? We are missing a subject. • The hike through the Grand Canyon. • What about this hike? What is difficult, easy, long, or fun? We are missing the verb in this fragment.

  4. Correcting fragments • How can you take the following fragments and make them a complete sentence? • Sailing around the world. • The hike through the Grand Canyon.

  5. Run ons • They just keep running…. • A run on occurs when you connect two or more sentences without proper punctuation or conjunctions. • I once had a dog named sally who I loved very much and I wanted to keep her and I was sad when she died and I really miss her I loved her very much. • WHEW!!! TOO MUCH…

  6. Correcting Run Ons • How can we correct this giant run on sentence? Think: where does one thought end and another thought begin? • I once had a dog named sally who I loved very much and I wanted to keep her and I was sad when she died and I really miss her I loved her very much.

  7. Practice, practice, practice • Workbook pages 1-3

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