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Complete Sentence, Fragment, or Run-on?
Correcting the Fragment
Correct the Run-on
Anything goes!
100
Michael plays chess every weekend.
Complete Sentence
100
The cow in the field.
Possible Answer: The cow in the Field was eating grass.
100
I love to write papers I would write one every day if I had the time.
Possible answer: I love to write papers. I would write one every day if I had the time.
100
True or False: The predicate tells whom or what the sentence is about.
False
200
I’m having a good day today it is my birthday.
Run-on Sentence
200
This afternoon.
Possible Answer: I hope we can go outside this afternoon.
200
John hit the baseball very far it went over the right field fence.
Possible Answer: John hit the baseball very far, and it went over the right field fence.
200
Is the following sentence declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory? I showed my animals at the fair this weekend.
Declarative
300
When the sun comes up?
Sentence Fragment.
300
Before the big game last night.
Possible Answer: I took a nap before the big game last night.
300
We went to movies after the movies we went home.
Possible answer: We went to the movies. After the movies we went home.
300
What is missing from the sentences: the subject, the predicate, both, or neither? The kids at the zoo.
Predicate
400
The cat meowing in the tree.
Sentence Fragment
400
A giant pink polka-dotted cat with a top hat.
Possible Answer: I had a nightmare about a giant pink polka-dotted cat with a top hat.
400
Mary and Sandra and Ann are coming to dinner tonight
Possible answer: Mary, Sandra, and Ann are coming to dinner tonight.
400
What punctuation would be best at the end of this sentence? I can't wait to see my cousins at the family reunion
Exclamation point !
500
Carrying the books, I became tired.
Complete Sentence
500
And I studied before the test.
Possible Answer: My friend and I studied before the test.
500
What day of the week is your favorite mine is Friday.
Possible answer: What day of the week is your favorite? Mine is Friday.
500
What is missing from the sentences: the subject, the predicate, both, or neither? The eye doctor checked my vision.
Neither