1. By: Angela Smith

2. These are independent clauses
that have been combined incorrectly.
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3. 1. And run-on sentences
2. Fused run-on sentences
3. Comma Splice sentences

4. Two or more long or short independent
clauses connected with a coordinating
conjunction without any punctuation.
Example:
I met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA and
we soon became friends.
I met Charlie in a
yoga class at the
YWCA.
We soon became
friends.

5. Two or more independent clauses run together
without any punctuation.
Example: I met Charlie in a yoga class at the
YWCA we soon became friends.

6. Two or more independent clauses run together
with only a comma.
Example: I met Charlie in a yoga class at the
YWCA, we soon became friends.

7.  Add a period: I met Charlie in a yoga class at
the YWCA. We soon became friends.
 Add a semicolon: I met Charlie in a yoga class at
the YWCA; we soon became friends.
 Add a conjunctive adverb: I met Charlie in a
yoga class at the YWCA; indeed, we soon
became friends.

8.  Add a subordinating conjunction: Soon after I
met Charlie in a yoga class at the YWCA, we
became friends.
OR
 Charlie and I became friends soon after we
met in a yoga class at the YWCA.
 Add a coordinating conjunction: I met Charlie in
a yoga class at the YWCA, and we soon became
friends.

9. What is a fragment?
A fragment is simply just “a piece of a
a sentence”

10. There are three types:
1.One or more phrases
2.One or more dependent
clauses
3.A combination of
phrases and dependent
clauses

11. Examples:
1. I sat down. In the bus.
2. I love to teach. In this class.

12. There are two ways to correct this type:
Revision A) The phrase might belong to the
sentence that comes before it or after it.
All you have to do is remove the period and put
the two sentences together.
Examples: I sat down in the bus.
I love to teach in this class.
or

13. Revision B) You might need to compose an
independent clause to which the phrase will be
added.
Example:
I sat down. Forty other screaming kids were
already in the bus.

14. Example:
As I sat down

15. There are three ways to correct this type:
Revision A) The dependent clause might belong
to the sentence that comes before or after it.
Example:
As I sat down, Howard, the school bully, came
and sat down beside me.
OR

16. Revision B) You might need to compose an
independent clause to add to the dependent
clause.
Example: As I sat down, my worst fears
were realized. Howard, the school bully, sat
down beside me.
OR

17. Revision C) You might omit the subordinate
conjunction, thereby leaving an independent
clause.
Example: Remove the (as)- I sat down.
Howard, the school bully, came and sat down
beside me.

18. Example:
As I sat down in the
school bus that was filled
with screaming kids.

19. There are two ways to correct this type:
Revision A) You need an independent clause. You
might change a dependent clause to an
independent clause by dropping the subordinate
conjunction.
Example: As I sat down in the school bus that was
filled with screaming kids.
OR

20. Revision B) You need an independent clause.
You might add an independent clause.
Example: As I sat down in the school bus that
was filled with screaming kids, Howard, the
school bully, came and sat down beside me.