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Lesson 10-Fragments and Run-Ons
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Fragments and Run-Ons
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Are these groups of words sentences? How can you make these good sentences?
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Scott wrote a story. About a broken pencil. Readers may not be. Interested because it has no point.
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You Already Know...
A sentence MUST have a subject and a predicate.
A sentence fragment is missing one or both of these sentence parts. A fragment does not express a complete thought. You can correct sentence fragments by supplying the missing sentence parts.
INCORRECT: I want to talk to you. About a summer job.
CORRECT: I want to talk to you about a summer job.
A run-on sentence is two or more sentences that are run together with commas or without any punctuation. Often you cannot tell where one thought ends and the next begins.
INCORRECT: Uncle Frank is a writer Aunt Jill is one too.
INCORRECT: Ann read their book, she loved it, she will read it again, then she will give it to me.
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You can correct a run-on sentence by separating each thought into a sentence of its own.
CORRECT: Uncle Frank is a writer. Aunt Jill is one too.
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Sometimes you can combine the parts of a run-on sentence into a compound subject, a compound predicate, a compound sentence, or a complex sentence.
CORRECT: Ann read their book and loved it. She will read it again, and then she will give it to me.
CORRECT: Ann read their book and loved it. After she reads it again, she will give it to me.
How would you correct each fragment?
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My dad words on a pit crew. At the dirt track.
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My dad words on a pit crew at the dirt track.
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I stand at the pit. And watch races.
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I stand in he pit and watch races.
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Waving the checkered flag.
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Mr. Hanks is waving the checkered flag.
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Cars stopped at the pit. For repairs.
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Cars stopped at the pit for repairs.
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As fast as possible.
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The red car went as fast as possible.
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How would you correct each run-on sentence?
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I have a different job every summer, it is fun.
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I have a different jub every summer, but it is fun.
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Last year Al and I walked dogs and we fed them and we bathed them also.
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Last year Al and I walked, fed, and bathed the dogs.
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Once Al walked three big dogs together their leashes became tangled they tripped him.
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Once Al walked three big dogs together. Their leashes became tangled, and they tripped him.
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This summer I am working in a pet store the customers laugh at the puppies I laugh at the puppies
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This summer I am working in a pet store. The customers and I laugh at the puppies.
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By next year I will have had a lot of experience with animals, I want to work for a veterinarian.
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By next year I will have had a lot of experience with animals. I want to work for a veterinarian.