The document outlines common grammatical errors, focusing on fragment and run-on sentence issues. Fragments occur when incomplete thoughts lack a subject or predicate, while run-on sentences improperly join independent clauses. Strategies for correcting these errors include adding necessary components to fragments and restructuring run-on sentences through separation or combination.

1. Fragments

3. ● A fragment error occurs when an
incomplete sentence is punctuated as a
complete sentence. It could either lack a
subject or predicate, or it could simply
not express a complete thought.
● Remember a sentence must have a
subject and predicate, and it must
express a complete thought.

4. ● A common fragment error occurs when a
dependent clause is mistaken for a complete
sentence.
Example: Because I was told to redo my English
work on a typing sheet.
Though they appear to be sentences because they
contain a subject and a verb, dependent clauses are
fragments—they cannot stand alone as complete,
meaningful sentences.

5. Draw a broken heart on your notebook.
Missing
Subject
Missing
Predicate

6. A fragment can often be corrected by
adding a subject and/or verb, or adding
some other information to make a
complete sentence such as an independent
clause.
Example:
INCORRECT: Because we work well in
groups at school.
CORRECT: Because we work well in groups
at school, the teacher allowed us to go
out earlier.

7. Exercise: Fix the following FRAGMENTS by turning them into complex sentences.
1.Since I was working on the project all by
myself.
2.Because no one contributed to the group
project.
3.After I found out that my group members did
their part after all.
4.If I knew all the answers to your questions.

8. ● A common fragment error occurs when a
dependent clause is mistaken for a complete
sentence.
Example: Because I was told to redo my English
work on a typing sheet.
Though they appear to be sentences because they
contain a subject and a verb, dependent clauses are
fragments—they cannot stand alone as complete,
meaningful sentences.

9. Run-on
Sentences

10. A run-on sentence is made up of two or more independent
clauses that are not joined correctly or which should be
made into separate sentences. A run-on sentence is defined
by its grammatical structure, not its length.
Incorrect: My favorite band is in town they are performing
now.
Correct: My favorite band is in town. They are performing
now.
Correct: My favorite band is in town, and they are
performing now.

11. A run-on is like a conjoined heart. It has too many ideas that are not properly joined. It
puts too much pressure on the sentence. We need to perform heart surgery.

12. A comma splice is the incorrect
use of a comma to join two
independent clauses.
Incorrect: I love being group
leader, it makes me feel joyful.
Correct: I love being group leader
because it makes me feel joyful.
Correct: I love being group
leader; it makes me feel joyful.

13. How to fix a run-on sentence:
Example: Students deserve a break they have
worked so hard during the school year.
1.Make two separate sentences
Students deserve a break. They have worked
so hard during the school year.

14. 2. Turn into a compound sentence
Students have worked so hard during the
school year, so they deserve a break.
3. Turn into a complex sentence
Students deserve a break because they have
worked so hard during the school year.

15. Revise the following run-on sentences using one of the strategies you
read on the slides.
1. No one likes to be taken for granted sometimes the victim
doesn’t even recognize it.
2. We feel pity when children beg we feel no choice but to give.
3. Not everyone who begs is needy not everyone who gives is
kind.
4. Sometimes you just need to give to others some persons do
actually need the help.