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Sentence Fragments
Run-on Sentences
Adding (Sensory) Details
Commas & Semicolons
Parallel Structures
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What is a sentence fragment?
What is a sentence that does not express a complete thought?
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What is a run-on sentence?
What is if you run together two or more complete sentences as if they were a single sentence?
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Sentences are ineffective because they...
What is repeat vague ideas of lack useful or interesting details?
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What can you use to combine two sentences only if the sentences are closely related?
What is a semicolon?
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What is parallel structure?
What is two or more words, phrases, or clauses that are written in the same grammatical form or pattern?
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What does a sentence fragment lack? (is missing)
What is a subject, verb, or both?
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What is missing in a sentence to make it a run on?
What is a run on sentence is missing punctuation marks between the two sentences?
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Replace the repeated ideas with new information: I liked all the songs and didn't dislike any.
What is I liked all the songs, especially the first one.
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Fix the sentence: Four police officers ran to the injured child he was only six or seven years old.
What is Four police officers ran to the injured child; he was only six or seven years old.
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Why is this not parallel? A chess champion needs to be intelligent, patient, and using imagination.
What is two adjectives and a phrase? A chess champion needs to be intelligent, patient, and imaginative.
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What is missing from this sentence" The first people to live in North America.
What is the verb is missing. What did these people do?
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What can you use to join two sentences to make it not a run-on sentence?
What is use a comma and a coordinating conjunction to join the two sentences?
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What are sensory details?
What is sensory details are used to describe how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels?
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and, or, nor, but, for, so, and yet are all _____.
What is: coordinating conjunctions which join words?
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Make the sentence parallel and explain why it is not. Playing chess and when she listens to music relax my friend Natalie.
What is: Playing chess and listening to music relax my friend Natalie.
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Why is this sentence a fragment? Buffalo hide was used to cover tepees. Because it was strong and flexible.
What is the second word group is a subordinate clause and does not express a complete thought?
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Fix the sentence: Four police officers ran to the injured child he was only six or seven years old.
What is put a comma in. Four police officers ran to the injured child, he was only six or seven years old.
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Fix this sentence: The show was impressive.
What is The fast paced rhyming lyrics and the pounding drumbeats made the show impressive.
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Fix the sentence: The eyewitness stared hard at the back of the speeding vehicle she could not see the license plate number.
What is: The eyewitness stared hard at the back of the speeding vehicle, BUT she could not see the license plate number.
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Fix the below sentence to make it parallel: In Greek mythology, Poseidon ruled the sea and was in control of earthquakes.
What is: In Greek mythology, Poseidon ruled the sea and controlled earthquakes.
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Tell what is missing from this sentence AND make it complete: In North America during the 1500s.
What is a subject and a verb are missing? Sentence: Europeans first settled in North America during the 1500s.
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What are the 7 words that can fix a run-on sentence?
What is FANBOYS?
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Fix the sentence: Dolphins are animals that live in the ocean.
What is: Dolphins are aquatic mammals that live in the ocean and are often found in Florida.
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Fix the sentence: Sometimes I ride down the hill I convince my brother to bring the sled back up.
What is: Sometimes I ride down the hill, AND I convince my brother to bring the sled back up.
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Fix the below sentence: I like the story about Sisyphus. I also am enjoying the myth about Aphrodite.
What is: I like the story about Sisyphus and the myth about Aphrodite.