1. Complete Sentences Fragments Run-On Sentences

2. Complete Sentences Bobby smiled until he thought his face would crack.
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. Last Saturday after the ballgame at the ice cream shop.
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. Even though she was the prettiest girl and had a great presentation.
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 The books are heavy don’t carry them.
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. The books are heavy, don’t carry them.
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. Complete Sentence Fragment Run-On
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?

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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)