Sentences: Identifying & Fixing Complete, Fragments, & Run-Ons

Identify the complete sentence

• Running through the park and jumping over the fence.

• Running through the park and jumping.

• Over the fence.

• The dog barked.

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.1

Identify the complete sentence

• After the rain stopped.

• After the rain stopped. We ran.

• After the rain stopped, we ran.

• We ran, the rain stopped.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

SENTENCE, FRAGMENT, or RUN-ON?

Eating ice cream on a hot day.

• Sentence

• Fragment

• Run-On

• I'm not sure.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

SENTENCE, FRAGMENT, or RUN-ON?

Evie took out her backpack, she put all of her books away.

• Sentence

• Fragment

• Run-On

• I don't know.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

What is this sentence missing (if anything)?

Johnny's first wrestling match.

• Subject

• Predicate

• Subject and predicate

• Nothing, it is a complete sentence.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

Which does NOT show a correct way to rewrite the run-on sentence:

The boy was bullied for the clothes he wore he became scared to come to school.

• The boy was bullied for the clothes he wore, he became scared to come to school.

• The boy was bullied for the clothes he wore. He became scared to come to school.

• The boy was bullied for the clothes he wore; he became scared to come to school.

• The boy was bullied for the clothes he wore, so he became scared to come to school.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

Correct the run-on sentence:

The bright sun was shining it was a beautiful day.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

Re-write my run-on sentence:

She went to the store she bought some groceries she met her friend.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

Correct the sentence fragment:

Jason Reynold's book Look Both Ways

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

Complete the sentence to make it a compound sentence, rather than a run on.

I have soccer practice later, _____ I have to remember to pack my equipment.

• yet

• nor

• so

• but

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.9-10.2A