Sentence Writing
Typically a noun, pronoun or a group of words acting as a noun.
What is a subject?
A sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
A group of words that looks like a sentence, but actually isn’t a complete sentence.
What is a sentence fragment?
A sentence defined by its grammatical structure, not its length.
What is a Run on Sentence?
The part of the sentence that contains a verb and provides information about the action or state of the subject.
What is a predicate?
A word that introduces a dependent clause and connects it to an independent clause.
What is a relative pronoun?
I.e. That, Which, Who, Whom, Whose
What kind of sentence fragment is this example. "Went to soccer practice."
What is a missing subject?
The most common type of run on sentence
What is a comma splice?
A group of words that can stand alone as a sentence.
What is a Independent Clause?
A word that connect nouns/pronouns to relative clauses.
What is a relative Adverb?
I.e. Where, When, Why
This sentence is an example of what fragment, "If they had more time."
What is an abandoned clause?
A run on sentence or a comma splice:
The results of the study were inconclusive, therefore more research needs to be done on the topic.
What is a comma splice?
A group of words that has both a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is a Dependent Clause?
When using relative clauses we make two sentences become one by
What is changing the pronoun in the second sentence into a relative pronoun?
The three ways you can fix a sentence fragment.
What is attach, rewrite, and revise?
The four ways to fix a run on sentence
What is separate the independent clauses with a period, separate the independent clauses with a semicolon, insert a comma or add a coordinating conjunction, turn one of the independent clauses into a dependent one.
An acronym that helps us remember the coordinating conjunctions used to join two independent clauses in a compound sentence.
What are FANBOYS?
This punctuation mark needs to be before the relative pronoun.
What is a comma?
Fix the sentence fragment.
"Running down the street as fast as she could. Hoping to catch the bus before it left."
What is "She was running down the street as fast as she could, hoping to catch the bus before it left."
Fix the run on sentence
The sun was setting behind the mountains it painted the sky in shades of pink and orange the air was cool and crisp as the wind blew through the trees.
What is
The sun was setting behind the mountains, painting the sky in shades of pink and orange. The air was cool and crisp as the wind blew through the trees.