Sentence Fragmentsand Run ons

Three Questions:

Does the group of words have a subject?

Does it have a verb?Does it express a complete thought?

Are these sentences?

1. Was the best sharpshooter in the United States.

2. Annie Oakley, with the help of Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show.

3. As it fell through the air ninety feet away.

After he wrote “A Christmas Memory.” Is this a sentence? If not, what’s missing?

Rewrite making a complete sentence.

Is this a sentence?

Truman Capote was an American author.

Does it have a subject? Verb? Is it a complete thought?

Now, on your own, complete:P. 321-322 in Grammar TextExercise 1 Identifying Sentence Fragments#2-6

Phrases are not sentences!

A Phrase does not have a subject and verb!Verbal Phrases:

Learning about the Civil War.

Appositive Phrases:A twenty five year old soldier.

Prepositional Phrases:With great courage on the battle field.

Let’s revise phrase fragments!

Landing on the planet.How can we turn this into a sentence?

In a huge spaceship.How can we turn this into a sentence?

Setting foot on the planet.How can we turn this into a sentence?

Practice: Exercise 2 p. 323# 3-7Revise each fragment by turning it into a sentence

A Clause is not a sentence!

A clause is a group of words that does not have a subject and a verb.

Independent Clause: can stand alone as a sentence, expresses a complete thought

Subordinate Clause: can not stand alone as a sentence, does not express a complete thought

When Paris carried off the beautiful Helen of Troy.(Dependent clause- can’t stand alone as a sentence even though it has a subj and a verb)

How can we rewrite as a complete sentence? What are we missing in this clause?

As we watched the spaceship land (this clause has a subject and a verb, but it isn’t a complete thought)

How can we rewrite this clause as a sentence.

Practice: Ex. 4 p. 325 Using subordinate clauses in sentences # 2-6

Run On Sentences

A run on sentence is two or more complete sentences run together as one. They are confusing because the reader can’t tell where one sentence ends and the next begins.

Canada has ten provinces each province has its own government.

Canada has ten provinces, each province has its own government.

What is wrong with these sentences?

How can we revise these run ons?

Movies entertain millions of people every day they are popular all over the world.How can we rewrite this correctly?

Many films take years to make they require the skills of hundreds of workers. How can we rewrite this correctly?

Practice: p. 328-329 # 3- 7 Ex. 5