Definitions
The part of a sentence indicating 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.
What is the predicate?
Run-on sentences are usually missing what key element of mechanics?
What is punctuation?
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 + a predicate = ?
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 other kinds of punctuation marks. Name one.
Period, comma, colon, dash, etc...
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:
The banshee screams so much every day she is hoarse in the evening and must have a soothing hot tea.
What is:
The banshee screams so much every day. She is hoarse in the evening and must have a soothing hot tea.
The banshee screams so much every day; she is hoarse in the evening and must have a soothing hot tea.
The banshee screams so much every day that she is hoarse in the evening and must have a soothing hot tea.
Attempt to fix the following comma splice:
The full moon rose, the werewolf began to change.
What is:
The full moon rose, so the werewolf began to change.
The full moon rose; the werewolf began to change.
Because the full moon rose, the werewolf began to change.
The full moon rose. The werewolf began to change.
The full moon rose; because of this, the werewolf began to change.
The werewolf began to change because the full moon rose.
Attempt to fix the following sentence fragment:
The sold their house. And they moved into a haunted house.
What is:
They sold their house; they moved into a haunted house.
They sold their house and moved into a haunted house.
This is needed to separate two independent clauses with a comma.
What is a conjunction?