Run-on Sentences

Run-on Sentences

Multiple Choice

Which is a comma splice?

• When I go to school, I learn about run-on sentences.

• Learning about run-on sentences is important.

• Run-on sentences are a grammar error, students need to avoid them.

• From a long, wordy sentence, you may get a run-on.

Multiple Choice

Which is a fused sentence?

• Running is good for your health it is not good for a sentence.

• If a sentence is two sentences run together, it is a run-on.

• Effective revising means making sure your writing has no run-on sentences in it.

• Persuasive writing is fun, it helps students to argue effectively.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence needs a comma before a conjunction?

• Avoiding run-on sentences is important since they show poor grammar skills.

• Monkeys prefer bananas to run-on sentences in an essay.

• Writers must wipe out run-on sentences for an effective essay.

• Run-on sentences are annoying but they can be repaired.

Multiple Choice

Which correctly fixes the run-on using method 1?

• Monkeys are lucky they don't have to worry about run-on sentences.

• Monkeys are lucky. They don't have to worry about run-on sentences.

• Monkeys don't have to worry about run-on sentences, they are lucky.

Multiple Select

Click the box of the word that is NOT a coordinating conjunction.

• for

• yet

• since

• but

• or

Multiple Choice

Which correctly fixes the run-on sentence using method 2?

• Monkeys eat bananas but they do not write run-on sentences.

• Monkeys eat bananas, they do not write run-on sentences.

• Monkeys eat bananas. They do not write run-on sentences.

• Monkeys eat bananas, but they do not write run-on sentences.

Multiple Choice

Which correctly fixes the run-on sentence using method 3?

• Bananas benefit monkeys; they do not fix run-on sentences.

• Bananas benefit monkeys, yet they do not fix run-on sentences.

• Bananas benefit monkeys. They do not fix run-on sentences.

• Bananas benefit monkeys they do not fix run-on sentences.

Multiple Choice

Which correctly fixes the run-on sentence using method 4?

• Sentences about run-on sentences can become boring; sentences about monkeys never do.

• Sentences about run-on sentences can become boring, but sentences about monkeys never do.

• Sentences about run-on sentences can become boring, sentences about monkeys never do.

• Sentences about run-on sentences can become boring; however, sentences about monkeys never do.

Multiple Choice

Which is a dependent clause?

• Writers do not burn calories writing run-on sentences.

• After a student accidentally writes a run-on sentence in a persuasive essay.

• From the perspective of a writer of run-on sentences.

• Several solutions exist to fix run-on sentences.

Multiple Choice

Which correctly fixes the run-on sentence using method 5.

• This may be the last sentence about run-on sentences, it is not the last sentence about monkeys.

• Although this may be the last sentence about run-on sentences, it is not the last sentence about monkeys.

• This may be the last sentence about run-on sentences; it is not the last sentence about monkeys.

• This may be the last sentence about run-on sentence; on the other hand, it is not the last sentence about monkeys.