Run ons, comma splices and fragments project
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The document discusses different types of sentence errors: run-on sentences, fragments, and provides examples and explanations of each. There are three main types of run-on sentences discussed: fused sentences connected with just a coordinating conjunction, sentences run together without any punctuation, and sentences run together with just a comma. The document also discusses the three types of fragments: phrases, dependent clauses, and a combination. It provides examples of each and explains the different ways to correct fragments, such as adding an independent clause or changing a dependent clause to independent.
Run ons, comma splices and fragments project
- 2. These are independent clauses that have been combined incorrectly. Run On Sentences Song (Run-On Sentences by Melissa)(1).mp4
- 3. 1. And run-on sentences 2. Fused run-on sentences 3. Comma Splice sentences
- 4. Two or more long or short independent clauses connected with a coordinating conjunction without any punctuation. Example: I met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA and we soon became friends. I met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA. We soon became friends.
- 5. Two or more independent clauses run together without any punctuation. Example: I met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA we soon became friends.
- 6. Two or more independent clauses run together with only a comma. Example: I met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA, we soon became friends.
- 7. Add a period: I met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA. We soon became friends. Add a semicolon: I met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA; we soon became friends. Add a conjunctive adverb: I met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA; indeed, we soon became friends.
- 8. Add a subordinating conjunction: Soon after I met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA, we became friends. OR Charlie and I became friends soon after we met in a yoga class at the YWCA. Add a coordinating conjunction: I met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA, and we soon became friends.
- 9. What is a fragment? A fragment is simply just “a piece of a a sentence”
- 10. There are three types: 1.One or more phrases 2.One or more dependent clauses 3.A combination of phrases and dependent clauses
- 11. Examples: 1. I sat down. In the bus. 2. I love to teach. In this class.
- 12. There are two ways to correct this type: Revision A) The phrase might belong to the sentence that comes before it or after it. All you have to do is remove the period and put the two sentences together. Examples: I sat down in the bus. I love to teach in this class. or
- 13. Revision B) You might need to compose an independent clause to which the phrase will be added. Example: I sat down. Forty other screaming kids were already in the bus.
- 14. Example: As I sat down
- 15. There are three ways to correct this type: Revision A) The dependent clause might belong to the sentence that comes before or after it. Example: As I sat down, Howard, the school bully, came and sat down beside me. OR
- 16. Revision B) You might need to compose an independent clause to add to the dependent clause. Example: As I sat down, my worst fears were realized. Howard, the school bully, sat down beside me. OR
- 17. Revision C) You might omit the subordinate conjunction, thereby leaving an independent clause. Example: Remove the (as)- I sat down. Howard, the school bully, came and sat down beside me.
- 18. Example: As I sat down in the school bus that was filled with screaming kids.
- 19. There are two ways to correct this type: Revision A) You need an independent clause. You might change a dependent clause to an independent clause by dropping the subordinate conjunction. Example: As I sat down in the school bus that was filled with screaming kids. OR
- 20. Revision B) You need an independent clause. You might add an independent clause. Example: As I sat down in the school bus that was filled with screaming kids, Howard, the school bully, came and sat down beside me.