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Sentence Structure: Fragments, Run-Ons, and Complete Sentences

Learn about different types of sentence structures including fragments, run-on sentences, and complete sentences. Discover how to identify and fix these errors to improve your writing.

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Sentence Structure: Fragments, Run-Ons, and Complete Sentences

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  1. Complete Sentences Complete Sentences Fragments Run-On Sentences

  2. Complete Sentences • A complete sentence has a subject and a predicate that work together to make a complete thought. Bobby smiled until he thought his face would crack.

  3. Sentence Fragments • A SENTENCE FRAGMENT fails to be a complete sentence because it cannot stand by itself; it may be missing a subject or a predicate.

  4. Sentence Fragments • Some fragments may locate something in time and place, but lack a subject-verb relationship. Last Saturday after the ballgame at the ice cream shop.

  5. Sentence Fragments • Some fragments describe something but have no subject-verb relationship. Shooting just before the buzzer rang and hoping to score the winning point.

  6. Sentence Fragments • Some fragments cannot stand by themselves because they start a thought but don’t finish it. Even though she was the prettiest girl and had a great presentation.

  7. Quickwrite Fragment • Explain what a fragment sentence is. • Discuss how you could fix a fragment sentence.

  8. Run-On Sentences • RUN-ON SENTENCES join two or more complete sentences without proper punctuation or conjunctions.

  9. Run-On Sentences • Remember: The length of a sentence really has nothing to do with whether a sentence is a run-on or not; even a very short sentence could be a run-on. The books are heavy don’t carry them. The books are heavy. Don’t carry them.

  10. Run-On Sentences • When two clauses are connected by only a comma, they are a run-on sentence that is called a comma-splice. The books are heavy, don’t carry them.

  11. Run-On Sentences happen: • when two independent clauses are not correctly joined by punctuation or a conjunction. The game is going to be very close you have to play your best.

  12. Quickwrite Run On • Explain what a run on sentence is. • Discuss how you could fix a run on sentence.

  13. Ready for a drill? • Is it a complete sentence, a run-on, or a fragment? Read each of the following and record your choice!

  14. 1. Walking through the dark forest. Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On

  15. 2. Bob was running in the yard. Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On

  16. 3. This is my first ball game I think we will win. Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On

  17. 4. All of the other girls at the mall. Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On

  18. 5. I walked to school every day. Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On

  19. 6. My arm hurts a little. Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On

  20. 7. A big crowd of people has arrived. Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On

  21. 8. Today is the perfect day for a party! Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On

  22. 9. Even though it was late and very dark. Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On

  23. 10. The babies are crying and they are sleepy. Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On

  24. Quickwrite Complete Sentences • How would an incomplete sentence, a fragment or run on, impact a reader?

  25. The End PowerPoint credit: classroom.jcschools.net/la/activities/ completesent.ppt

  26. Run-on Sentence Revision • Make two separate sentences . • Use a comma and a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor/or, but, yet, so) , so • Use a semicolon ; • Use a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb followed by a comma ; however, (therefore, instead, also, still; meanwhile, nevertheless)

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