{"id":5619,"date":"2013-03-23T20:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:27:04","slug":"sentence-fragments-and-run-on-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/2013\/03\/23\/sentence-fragments-and-run-on-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentence Fragments and Run-On Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview:\u00a0 Opposite Writing Errors<\/strong>
\nBoth sentence fragments and run-on sentences are writing errors that occur when writers aren’t careful about punctuation.\u00a0 Although they may seem totally \u00a0different, they are really just opposites of the same type of error.\u00a0 It is important to know when one sentence ends and a new one begins.<\/p>\n

What Is a Sentence?<\/strong>
\nA sentence has a subject and verb, as well as expresses a complete thought.\u00a0 There is both action and something performing the action.\u00a0 A sentence is finished, even if it doesn’t quite say what the writer wants.\u00a0 It will end with punctuation marks such as periods, exclamation marks, or question marks. It is easier to understand what the author means, because the sentence expresses a complete thought.<\/p>\n

A Sentence Fragment Is Only Part of the Thought<\/strong>
\nMost students (and many writers) have the experience of having one or two of their “sentences” in a \u00a0paper marked \u00a0“This is not a sentence”, or just “not a sentence.”\u00a0 Some fragments \u00a0leave out the verb, so nothing is happening , or they leave out the subject,\u00a0 so nothing is performing the action.\u00a0 Those may be underlined in green on the word processor, as “fragment (consider revising), but that’s nothing to count on.\u00a0 If the sentence can’t stand alone, even if it starts with a capital letter and ends with a period, exclamation mark, or question mark, it might be a fragment.<\/p>\n

Watch Out For Dependent Clauses<\/strong>
\nA more sneaky form of sentence fragments begin with relative pronouns or conjunctions that signal subordinate clauses.\u00a0 These fragments have a subject and a verb, but they also begin with a word that turns the sentence into a phrase that can’t stand alone.\u00a0 For example, a simple sentence like “The car ran the stop sign” becomes a dependent clause by adding a word such as “when” or “because.”\u00a0 A fragment like “Because the car ran the stop sign” makes the reader wonder, “What happened?”\u00a0 It is no longer a complete thought.<\/p>\n

Run-On Sentences<\/strong>
\nRun-on sentences usually come in two types; those that go on and on without punctuation, and those that have punctuation, but it isn’t enough of the right kind.\u00a0 Run-on sentences happen because the writer is trying too hard to get too many ideas in the same sentence.\u00a0 They are also hard to read, because the reader doesn’t have a place to stop and breathe.\u00a0 The quickest way to catch run-ons is to read the sentences out loud.\u00a0 Then clauses can be separated by conjunctions, or made into dependent clauses.\u00a0 In addition, the writer can stop and make the run-on into two (or even three) separate, complete sentences.<\/p>\n

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