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PUMPED-UP GRAMMAR!

Improve your writing with tips on avoiding sentence fragments and run-on sentences. Learn how to structure sentences correctly for clear communication. This guide covers common mistakes and provides solutions. Enhance your grammar skills today!

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PUMPED-UP GRAMMAR!

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  1. PUMPED-UP GRAMMAR! GEE, KIDS, IT’D BE JUST SUPER IF YOU WOULDUSE WORDSCORRECTLY! Sladjana Larson

  2. A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just can’t make it. It’s missing something. Introduction Often, it’s missing a verb or part of a verb string: John working extra hard on his hook shot lately. Here, for instance, we’re missing an auxiliary — has been, in this case, probably — that would complete the verb string and the sentence.

  3. A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just can’t make it. It’s missing something. Often, it’s missing a verb or part of a verb string: Spending hours every day after school and even on weekends. This time we’re missing a whole verb. “Spending” is a participle wanting to modify something, but there is no subject-verb relationship within the sentence. Incomplete Verb, Part Two

  4. Sometimes a sentence fragment can give you a great deal of information, but it’s still not a complete sentence: Avoiding Sentence Fragments After the coach encouraged him so much last year and he seemed to improve with each passing game. Here we have a subject-verb relationship — in fact, we have two of them — but the entire clause is subordinated by the dependent word after. We have no independent clause.

  5. Avoiding Sentence Fragments Be alert for strings of prepositional phrases that never get around to establishing a subject-verb relationship: Immediately after the founding of the college and during those early years as the predominant educational institution in the American Midwest. Again, be careful of sentences which give their share of information but still don’t contain a subject and verb.

  6. Avoiding Sentence Fragments Now you never again will have trouble with sentence fragments! CONGRATULATIONS!

  7. The length of a sentence has nothing to do with whether or not a sentence is considered a run-on. An over-exuberant, run-off-at-the-mouth, 400-word gorilla of a sentence can be structurally fine. A run-on sentence is one in which two clauses have been connected incorrectly. Avoiding Run-on Sentences

  8. Avoiding Run-on Sentences Let’s think of an independent clause as an independently operated train headed west . . . getting connected to another train headed east. Nothing but grief will result from coupling these train clauses incorrectly! For example. . . . Some students think they can study for an important exam by “cramming” all night, they are probably wrong.

  9. Avoiding Run-on Sentences Some students think they can study for an important exam by “cramming” all night, they are probably wrong. This is an example of the dreaded COMMA SPLICE! A comma splice connects two independent clauses with only a comma. There are several ways to fix a comma splice. . . . There are several ways to fix a comma splice. . . .

  10. Avoiding Run-on Sentences 1.We can insert a period and start a new sentence. Some students think they can study for an important exam by “cramming” all night. They are probably wrong. 2. We can insert a comma plus a coordinating conjunction. Some students think they can study for an important exam by “cramming” all night, but they are probably wrong. 3. We can use a semicolon. Some students think they can study for an important exam by “cramming” all night; they are probably wrong.

  11. Avoiding Run-on Sentences Three Run-on Traps There are three situations in which run-on sentences are apt to happen: 1. When a pronoun in the second clause refers to a noun in the first clause:The President’s popularity has plummeted, she apparently underestimated the opposition. 2. When a suggestion or directive occurs in the second clause: You will be responsible for this material on the final exam, study it thoroughly now. 3. When two clauses are connected by a transitional expression:Many people think protectionism can halt rising prices, however, the opposite is actually true.

  12. Avoiding Run-on Sentences Freeing Trapped Run-ons 1.The President’s popularity has plummeted, and sheapparently underestimated the opposition. 2.You will be responsible for this material on the final exam. Study it thoroughly now. 3.Many people think protectionism can halt rising prices; however, the opposite is actually true.

  13. Avoiding Run-on Sentences • Now you’ll never again write a run-on sentence!

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