Definitions
The part of a sentence containing the noun or pronoun and what the sentence is about.
What is a subject?
A run-on sentence has two or more of this type of clause fused together.
What is an independent clause?
A comma splice can be fixed with this type of conjunction.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
A group of words lacking a subject, verb, or object.
What is a phrase?
Use this punctuation mark sparingly, or you'll look dramatic.
What is an exclamation point?
The part of a sentence containing the verb and what the action of the sentence is.
What is the predicate?
Run-on sentences are usually missing what key element of mechanics?
A comma splice can be fixed by linking independent clauses with these two types of punctuation marks.
What is a dash or a semicolon?
A fragment is created by punctuating a phrase like this is punctuated.
What is a sentence?
Never close an indirect question with this type of punctuation mark.
What is a question mark?
A subject and a predicate must be included in this.
What is a complete sentence?
You might fix a run-on sentence by adding this kind of punctuation mark that is known for connecting similar sentence elements together.
What is a semicolon?
A comma splice is fixed by rewriting an independent clause as this type of clause.
What is a dependent clause?
A fragment in which a predicate is punctuated as a full sentence is called this.
What is a compound-predicate fragment?
Quotation marks are never used for this.
What is emphasis?
A part of a sentence punctuated like a complete sentence.
What is a sentence fragment.
You can fix a run-on sentence with another kind of punctuation mark. Name it.
What is a period?
Three examples of coordinating conjunctions.
What is: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
A compound-predicate fragment contains this type of conjunction.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
This type of comma comes before the coordinating conjunction in a list.
What is the Oxford comma?
A comma placed between two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
Attempt to fix the following run-on sentence:
My dog runs so much every day he is tired and has to lie down in the evening.
My dog runs so much every day. He is tired and has to lie down in the evening.
My dog runs so much every day; he is tired and has to lie down in the evening.
My dog runs so much every day that he is tired and has to lie down in the evening.
Attempt to fix the following comma splice:
The cat meowed, I began petting it.
The cat meowed, so I began petting it.
The cat meowed; I began petting it.
Since the cat meowed, I began petting it.
The cat meowed. I began petting it.
The cat meowed; because of this, I began petting it.
Attempt to fix the following sentence fragment:
They sold their house. And they moved to a new city.
They sold their house; they moved to a new city.
They sold their house and moved to a new city.
This is needed to separate two independent clauses with a comma.
What is a conjunction?