Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-Ons

Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-Ons

•A complete sentence
1. has a subject (noun)
2. has a predicate (verb)
3. expresses a complete thought (makes sense)
4. has a capital letter at the beginning
5. has ending punctuation ( . ? ! )

• Everyone came to the play.

• I can draw you a picture.

•A fragment is a group of words that looks like a sentence but is missing a subject, a predicate, or a complete thought. Therefore, it is an incomplete sentence.

• Rolled down the windows. (missing a subject)

• Some girls in the class. (missing a predicate)

• From morning until night. (missing both a subject and a predicate)

• Jen and Mark have. (missing a complete thought)

•A run-on is created when two or more sentences are joined together without proper punctuation and are written as one sentence.

• Exercising is important it can keep your weight down.

• I picked up my laundry then I went home.

• She had a sore throat she was running a fever.

Multiple Choice

The car that is red runs very smoothly.

• fragment

• sentence

• run-on

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Forgetting that he was only wearing pajamas.

• fragment

• sentence

• run-on

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Sharon wondered why the chicken soup was green.

• fragment

• sentence

• run-on

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I was hungry I ate lunch.

• fragment

• sentence

• run-on

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On Saturday Bill went to the baseball game it rained and he got wet.

• fragment

• sentence

• run-on

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A full week after the toilet overflowed.

• fragment

• sentence

• run-on

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Eating was not allowed.

• fragment

• sentence

• run-on

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We'll share the secret with you.

• fragment

• sentence

• run-on

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It's tiring to read sentences that go on and on and on and on and don't end and don't have any punctuation.

• fragment

• sentence

• run-on

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The mud that no one wanted to eat.

• fragment

• sentence

• run-on