Fragments And Run-ons

Sentences Fragments and Run-ons

What is a Sentence? 

Contains At Least One Subject One Verb 

Expresses a  

Complete Thought

Sentence Fragment  

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Part of a sentence punctuated as if it were a complete sentence.

Examples My dog, Rover.  My dog, Rover, eats socks. 

Before I lost weight.  Before I lost weight, I broke the trampoline three times. 

Encouraging vagabond behavior. 

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I was arrested for encouraging vagabond behaviour.

Run-on Sentences  

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Two or more complete sentences incorrectly written as one.

Examples   Run-on: A couple wanted to go green this holiday, they saved the planet.

  Separate the two sentences with a period.

  Corrected: A couple wanted to go green this holiday. They saved the planet.

  Join them with a comma and a conjunction:

Rewrite My sister Mary decided to paint her house last

spring, thus she had to buy some paint.   She wanted inexpensive paint, at the same

time it had to go on easily and cover well, that combination was unrealistic to start with. 

Rewrite When most Americans think of drug dealers,

they picture a shadowy figure in a dark alley, there are illicit drug deals in small-town homes and farm houses, too.  Wollstonecraft believed in universal public

education. Also, in education that forms the heart and strengthens the body.  Her father pulled strings to get her the job.

Later regretting his actions.