Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices

What is the underlined portion?

The girl and her dog ran around the park.

• Subject

• Predicate

What is the underlined portion?

Under the fence, the dog escaped into the neighbors yard.

• Subject

• Predicate

Which if these is a simple sentence?

• My mother wanted to go to the store, but my father said we had to stay home.

• Because everyone is getting sick, I now have school online.

• My teacher is awesome!

• Because my teacher is so cool, she is letting us play a game for homework, and I am winning!

Which of these is a compound sentence?

• Today is the perfect day to do all of my homework!

• Even though I am tired in the morning, I will check in with my class on Zoom.

• With remote learning, all of my school work is now homework.

• I want to play games all day, but I need to complete my homework.

Which of these is a complex sentence?

• Whenever I forget to do my homework, my teacher sends me an email.

• Today I will eat breakfast food for dinner.

• I live in a house full of people, so we need to buy a lot of groceries.

• I am constantly on my computer.

Two sentences that are smooshed together with a comma in the middle is called...

• Fragment

• Complete sentence

• Run on Sentence

• Comma Splice

A sentence that is missing a subject or a predicate is called a...

• Fragment

• Complete sentence

• Run on Sentence

• Comma Splice

Two sentences that are smooshed together with no punctuation is called a...

• Fragment

• Complete sentence

• Run on Sentence

• Comma Splice

This is a complete sentence.

• Sentence

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

Is a fragment.

• Sentence

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice