Adding, Replacing or Moving Sentences

Fragments & Adding, Replacing or Moving Sentences

I can... revise and edit sentences

An incomplete sentence missing either a subject or a verb.

Example: Wanted her phone.

Fragment:

Two complete sentences with only one ending punctuation

mark, missing a comma and/or a connecting word.

Example: Mi Lin desperately wanted her phone she could hear it ringing

in the living room.

Run-on sentence:

Types of Incorrect Sentences

Contains a subject and verb with correct punctuation.

Example: Min Lin desperately wanted her phone.

Complete sentence:

An introductory clause followed by a comma and complete

sentence.

Example: Because she could hear it in the living room, Mi Lin desperately wanted her phone.

Compound sentence:

Types of Correct Sentences

Complex Sentence:

Two sentences joined with a comma and connecting word.

Example: Min Lin desperately wanted her phone , and she could hear it ringing in the living room.

Multiple Choice

What is the correct way to write sentence 3?

Sentence 3: Some people search inside a twisting model of the human brain, others walk past rows of wooden towers that stand like soldiers in a field.

• A. Some people search inside a twisting model of the human brain. Because others walk past rows

  of wooden towers that stand like soldiers in a field.

• B. Some people searching inside a twisting model of the human brain. Others walk past rows of

  wooden towers that stand like soldiers in a field.

• C. Some people search inside a twisting model of the human brain, and others walk past. Rows of

  wooden towers that stand like soldiers in a field.

• D. Some people search inside a twisting model of the human brain. Others walk past rows of

  wooden towers that stand like soldiers in a field.

Multiple Choice

What is the correct way to write sentence 6?

Sentence 6: Sarah opened her backpack she didn’t find anything that would help them navigate.

• A. Sarah opened her backpack. She didn’t find anything that would help them navigate.

• B. Sarah opened her backpack. She didn’t find anything, that would help them navigate.

• C. Sarah opening her backpack. She didn’t find anything that would help them navigate.

• D. Sarah opened her backpack but she didn’t find anything that would help them navigate.

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Multiple Choice

What is the correct way to write sentence 11?

Sentence 11: Sarah and Amber munched their snacks they felt better.

• A. Sarah and Amber munched. Their snacks they felt better.

• B. Sarah and Amber munched their snacks and felt better.

• C. Sarah Amber munched their snacks and because of that they felt better.

• D. Sarah and Amber munched their snacks then they felt better.

Multiple Choice

What is the correct way to write sentence 4?

Sentence 4: One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle and called a bubble ring it happens to be the perfect sea toy.

• A. One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle and called a bubble ring. Happening to be the

  perfect sea toy.

• B. One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle, and called a bubble ring. Then it happens to be

  the perfect sea toy.

• C. One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle, called a bubble ring it happens to be the perfect

  sea toy.

• D. One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle. It is called a bubble ring, and it happens to be the

  perfect sea toy.