Fragments and Run-on Sentences, Slides of Grammar and Composition

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Fragments

• A group of words incorrectly punctuated as a sentence.
• Fragments express incomplete thoughts.
• A fragment may be missing a subject, verb, or both.

Ways to fix fragments

• 1. Add the missing subject, verb, or other words to make the group of words a complete thought.
• 2. Eliminate the word that makes the fragment sound incomplete

What is a run-­‐on sentence?

• A run on sentence has two independent clauses that are not properly connected and they RUN into each other.
• An independent clause is a sentence which can stand on its own.
• When you have two independent clauses in a sentence, you need a conjunction and a comma to connect them.

A run on sentence has nothing to do

with the length of the sentence.

• The sun is strong put on sunblock.
• You can fix this sentence in three ways:
• 1. Use a period to fix the sentence.
• 2. Use a semi-­‐colon to fix the sentence. (very fancy)
• 3. Add a comma and a conjunction to the sentence

Let’s practice:

• I am a teacher I love snow days.
• Snow days are fun I hate to shovel
• Shoveling is great exercise it burns a lot of calories.
• We make homemade pizza every Sunday.
• Pizza is my favorite food I get heartburn.
• Heartburn is awful I take TUMS.
• TUMS has calcium it is important for bones.
• Dogs love to eat bones.

• I am a teacher. I love snow days.
• Snow days are fun, but I hate to shovel
• Shoveling is great exercise; it burns a lot of calories.
• We make homemade pizza every Sunday.
• Pizza is my favorite food, but I get heartburn.
• Heartburn is awful, so I take TUMS.
• TUMS has calcium; it is important for bones.
• Dogs love to eat bones.