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SentencesActual sentences,
Sentence fragments, and Run-OnsPacy Gilliam
Mrs. Gardner’s 5th Grade English Project
December 8, 2014
What is a sentence? A complete sentence must:
› Have a subject The subject tells who or what does the
action.› Have a predicate
The predicate contains the verb and tells what the action is.
A sentence is a group of words that has a complete and independent thought.
What is a Sentence Fragment?
A sentence fragment is a group of words that doesn’t state a complete thought.
Sometimes a fragment is missing a subject.
Sometimes a fragment is missing a verb.
Other times, a fragment has a subject and a verb, but the thought still isn’t complete.
REMEMBER
The length of a sentence really has nothing to do with whether a sentence is a run-on or not. Even a very short sentence could be a run-on.
Example: › Incorrect: The books are heavy don’t carry
them.› Correct: The books are heavy. Don’t carry
them.
Sentences Can Be Tricky
Example: BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO.
Buffalo! It's a noun! It's a city! It's a verb (meaning "to intimidate")! It plays on reduced relative clauses, different part-of-speech readings of the same word, and center embedding, all in the same sentence. Stare at it until you get the following meaning: "Bison from Buffalo, New York, who are intimidated by other bison in their community, also happen to intimidate other bison in their community.“
(Source: http://theweek.com/article/index/240886/7-sentences-that-sound-crazy-but-are-still-grammatical)
What is a run-on?
A run-on is two or more sentences put together without the correct punctuation or capitalization.
A reader cannot tell where one sentence ends and the next one begins.