1. Welcome, Pre-AP! Pick up your journals.
Surprise! We’re going to the library today! Bring your ChromeBook.

2. Do Now C-Notes Narrative Writing
Agenda
Planner: Fixing Run-Ons
**Summer Reading must be complete by Monday, Sept. 19.**
Do Now C-Notes
Narrative Writing

3. We need to take some notes over types of sentences.
Set up your journals for C-Notes and write the Essential Question, “How do I recognize and fix a Run-On Sentence?”

4. Complete Sentences = Independent Clauses
Ind. Clauses can stand alone. :-)
Fragments are just pieces of a whole and CANNOT stand alone - they’re Dependent Clauses because they depend on an Independent Clause to exist.
Think of yourself as an Ind. Clause - you can move down the hall freely, on your own.
Think of your backpack as a Dep. Clause - it depends on a ride from YOU to move down the hall.

5. Examples: Karen enjoyed the fresh air. (Ind. Clause)
Strolling leisurely down the block. (Dep. Clause - there is no subject and it does not make sense)
Strolling leisurely down the block, Karen enjoyed the fresh air. I have now joined together my IC and DC with a comma to create a perfect sentence.
**Commas are only strong enough to join together Ind. Clauses and Dep. Clauses - NOT two Ind. Clauses.

6. When 2 or more Ind. Clauses are written together as one, it’s a RUN-ON SENTENCE. :-(
You must fix Run-Ons and there are 3 ways:
Create two separate sentences with a period.
Add a semicolon between the two Ind. Clauses
Add a comma plus a FANBOYS

7. F: for A: and N: nor B: but O: or Y: yet S: so
Because these words bring two clauses together, they are called Coordinating Conjunctions.

8. Examples:
Karen strolled leisurely down the block she loved to stop and smell the roses. (Run On - there are two Ind. Clauses written together as one sentence)
Let’s Fix It!
Option 1: Karen strolled leisurely down the block. She loved to stop and smell the roses. (make two sentences)
Option 2: Karen strolled leisurely down the block; she loved to stop and smell the roses. (insert a semicolon between the Ind. Clauses)
Option 3: Karen strolled leisurely down the block, for she loved to stop and smell the roses. (insert a comma FANBOYS between the two Ind. Clauses)

9. Sometimes, two Ind. Clauses are “spliced” (joined) together illegally with a comma.
Commas are puny and not strong enough to hold together two Ind. Clauses.
This is a COMMA SPLICE. :-(
A comma splice is a type of Run-On sentence and must be fixed.
Do you remember the 3 ways to fix it?

10. Examples:
Karen strolled leisurely down the block, she loved to stop and smell the roses. (Remember, commas are wimpy! They can’t hold together two Ind. Clauses)
The options to fix a Comma Splice are the same as when fixing Run-Ons.
Option 1: Karen strolled leisurely down the block. She loved to stop and smell the roses. (make two sentences)
Option 2: Karen strolled leisurely down the block; she loved to stop and smell the roses. (insert a semicolon between the Ind. Clauses)
Option 3: Karen strolled leisurely down the block, for she loved to stop and smell the roses. (insert a comma FANBOYS between the two Ind. Clauses)

11. Welcome, C-Block! Pick up your journals.
Surprise! We’re going to the library today! Bring your ChromeBook.

12. Do Now C-Notes Narrative Writing
Agenda
Planner: Fixing Run-Ons
**Summer Reading must be complete by Monday, Sept. 19.**
Do Now C-Notes
Narrative Writing

13. Complete Sentences = Independent Clauses
Ind. Clauses can stand alone. :-)
Fragments are just pieces of a whole and CANNOT stand alone - they’re Dependent Clauses because they depend on an Independent Clause to exist.
Think of yourself as an Ind. Clause - you can move down the hall freely, on your own.
Think of your backpack as a Dep. Clause - it depends on a ride from YOU to move down the hall.

14. Examples: Karen enjoyed the fresh air. (Ind. Clause)
Strolling leisurely down the block. (Dep. Clause - there is no subject and it does not make sense)
Strolling leisurely down the block, Karen enjoyed the fresh air. I have now joined together my IC and DC with a comma to create a perfect sentence.
**Commas are only strong enough to join together Ind. Clauses and Dep. Clauses - NOT two Ind. Clauses.

15. When 2 or more Ind. Clauses are written together as one, it’s a RUN-ON SENTENCE. :-(
You must fix Run-Ons and there are 3 ways:
Create two separate sentences with a period.
Add a semicolon between the two Ind. Clauses
Add a comma plus a FANBOYS

16. F: for A: and N: nor B: but O: or Y: yet S: so
Because these words bring two clauses together, they are called Coordinating Conjunctions.

17. Examples:
Karen strolled leisurely down the block she loved to stop and smell the roses. (Run On - there are two Ind. Clauses written together as one sentence)
Let’s Fix It!
Option 1: Karen strolled leisurely down the block. She loved to stop and smell the roses. (make two sentences)
Option 2: Karen strolled leisurely down the block; she loved to stop and smell the roses. (insert a semicolon between the Ind. Clauses)
Option 3: Karen strolled leisurely down the block, for she loved to stop and smell the roses. (insert a comma FANBOYS between the two Ind. Clauses)

18. Sometimes, two Ind. Clauses are “spliced” (joined) together illegally with a comma.
Commas are puny and not strong enough to hold together two Ind. Clauses.
This is a COMMA SPLICE. :-(
A comma splice is a type of Run-On sentence and must be fixed.
Do you remember the 3 ways to fix it?

19. Examples:
Karen strolled leisurely down the block, she loved to stop and smell the roses. (Remember, commas are wimpy! They can’t hold together two Ind. Clauses)
The options to fix a Comma Splice are the same as when fixing Run-Ons.
Option 1: Karen strolled leisurely down the block. She loved to stop and smell the roses. (make two sentences)
Option 2: Karen strolled leisurely down the block; she loved to stop and smell the roses. (insert a semicolon between the Ind. Clauses)
Option 3: Karen strolled leisurely down the block, for she loved to stop and smell the roses. (insert a comma FANBOYS between the two Ind. Clauses)