Recognizing & Revising Run-On Sentences

Brown bears include the grizzly and the kodiak, the largest brown bear is the kodiak.

• kodiak; the

• kodiak; The

• kodiak. the

Did you know that kodiak bears weigh as much as 1,700 pounds, they can grow to a height of ten feet?

• pounds? They

• pounds; They

• pounds. They

Females give birth to as many as four cubs the cubs stay with their mother two or three years.

• cubs; The

• cubs, the

• cubs; the

Many people are afraid of bears encounters with bears are actually infrequent.

• bears. encounters

• bears, encounters

• bears; encounters

Grizzly bears are solitary animals, they do not want to interact with people.

• run-on sentence

• complete sentence

A bear’s sense of smell is more developed than its hearing or sight.

• run-on sentence

• complete sentence

People should always store food and garbage properly bears could be attracted by the smell.

• run-on sentence

• complete sentence

Never try to outrun a bear it can run more than thirty miles per hour!

• bear; It

• bear. It

• bear, it

There are four possible routes I don’t know which is the best.

• routes, but I

• routes, I

• routes but I

There weren't enough copies to go around we had to share the copies that were available.

• around so we

• around, so we

• around, we