Correcting Sentence Fragments

Which sentence corrects the fragment: When my alarm clock wakes me up in the morning.

• When my alarm clock wakes me up in the morning bright and early.

• When my alarm clock wakes me up in the morning and I eat breakfast.

• When my alarm clock wakes me up in the morning for school.

• When my alarm clock wakes me up in the morning, I get ready for work.

Which sentence corrects the fragment: Movies that have lots of action.

• Movies that have lots of action are my favorite.

• Movies that have lots of action and adventure.

• Movies that have lots of action in the beginning.

• Movies that have lots of exciting action.

Until you do everything on your list

• Complete sentence

• Fragment

• Run-on

Climbing up the side of the big, scary mountain.

• sentence fragment

• run-on sentence

• complete sentence

Which strategy can be used to correct a sentence fragment?

• Remove the fragment from the sentence.

• Change the punctuation of the fragment.

• Ignore the fragment and leave it as is.

• Add missing subject or verb, or combine the fragment with a complete sentence.

What is one way a writer correct a sentence fragment?

• By adding a period after the last word

• By capitalizing the first letter of the first word

• By breaking it down into two complete sentences

• By attaching it to a nearby sentence

Fix that fragment!

Eating candy all night long.

• When I was eating candy all night long.

• I am eating candy all night long Halloween night.

• Because I was eating candy all night long.

• Although I shouldn't, eating candy all night long on Halloween night.

What is wrong with this: swam quickly through the blue water.

• It needs a comma.

• It is a fragment because it is just the subject without the predicate.

• It is a fragment because it is just the predicate without the subject.

• It is a compound sentence.

After I dribbled the ball down the court.

• run-on

• rambling

• fragment

• correct

Getting very hyper and out of control.

• sentence fragment

• run-on sentence

• complete sentence