1. Or, how to avoid Run-ons, Fragments, and make your writing make sense!
Sentence Structure
Or, how to avoid Run-ons, Fragments, and make your writing make sense!

2. Sentences - Overview A sentence. . . Expresses a Complete Thought
Has two parts:
The Subject
The Predicate

3. A Sentence has Two Parts
The Subject
The Subject is the “do-er” of the action.
It is the “Noun Part” of the sentence.
“Somebody” or “Something”

4. A Sentence has Two Parts
The Predicate
The Action
Expresses Being or Do-ing

5. Examples: Mr. Scott is funny. ______________ is the subject.
______________ is the predicate.

6. The DIRECT OBJECT Not ALWAYS there. The receiver of the action.
“who or what” after the verb

7. Examples: Mr. Donovan rocks the house! ______________ is the Subject.
______________ is the Predicate.
______________ is the Direct Object

8. The Tale of Mr. Morton

9. Sentence Fragments Are only part of a sentence.
Do NOT express a complete thought.
Are missing either the Subject or the Predicate.

10. Examples: The book on the table. Missing _________________
Is wet. (Missing _____________)
Because it fell in a puddle.
Not a ______________________.

11. Examples:
Write the correct sentence here:

12. Run-on Sentences Run-ons happen:
When two or more sentences are shoved together as one sentence.
Also called fused sentences.

13. Run-on Sentences Causes: No Endmark and capital
Run-on: I’m hungry let’s eat.
Correct: I’m hungry. Let’s eat.

14. Run-on Sentences Causes: Improper use of a comma:
Run-on: I’m hungry, let’s eat.
Correct: I’m hungry, so let’s eat.

15. Run-on Sentences “Legal” ways to glue sentences: Use a semicolon. ;
Example: I’m hungry; let’s eat.
Use a comma WITH a conjunction.
Example: I’m hungry, so let’s eat.
Other conjunctions are: and, but, or, for, so, yet (among others).

16. Conjunctions