E11 Grammar 1.1 - 1.4

Identify the following sentence.

Summer is hot and sunny the days are long and perfect for the beach.

• Fragment

• Run-On

• Comma Splice

• Complete Sentence

Identify the following sentence.

• Fall is full of color, the leaves change.

• Fragment

• Run-On

• Comma Splice

• Complete Sentence

Identify the following sentence.

• With its cold winter.

• Fragment

• Run-On

• Comma Splice

• Complete Sentence

Identify the following sentence.

• The days are shorter, and the nights are longer.

• Fragment

• Run-On

• Comma Splice

• Complete Sentence

Identify the following sentence.

• Even though the storm clouds parted.

• Fragment

• Run-On

• Comma Splice

• Complete Sentence

Punctuate the underlined section to make it grammatically correct.

Megan set the record for the 100-meter freestyle however her older sister still holds the record in the 200-meter freestyle for their school.

• freestyle. However

• freestyle, however,

• freestyle however,

• freestyle; however,

Punctuate the underlined section to make it grammatically correct.

The team could not convert the interception into points nor close the score gap.

• points; nor,

• points, nor,

• points, nor

• No commas needed.

Punctuate the underlined section to make it grammatically correct.

The volleyball team left at 2:00pm because there is a shortage of bus drivers.

• 2:00pm; because

• 2:00pm; because,

• 2:00pm, because,

• No commas needed.

What is the SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION and WHERE IS A COMMA NEEDED, if at all?

Even though the team was behind by two touchdowns there was plenty of time to come back in the fourth quarter.

• there

  After "behind"

• Even though

  After "touchdowns"

• behind

  After "behind"

• time

  After "come back"

Add punctuation, if needed, to the following sentence.

Although absent since the 1980s diving has returned to Sauk Prairie High School.

• Although,

• 1980s, diving

• absent, since the 1980s,

• No punctuation needed.