Run-On Sentences and Fragments Lesson

What is a sentence?

A group of words that has a subject and a verb.
A sentence always expresses a complete thought.

Multiple Choice

Is this a complete sentence?

"The dog plays catch."

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What is the subject in this sentence?

"The dog plays catch."

• The dog

• plays

• catch.

Multiple Choice

What is the verb in this sentence?

"The dog plays catch."

• The dog

• plays

• catch.

Multiple Choice

Is this a complete sentence?

"plays catch."

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What is this missing?

"plays catch."

• A subject

• A verb

Multiple Choice

Is this a complete sentence?

"The dog."

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What is this missing?

"The dog."

• A subject

• A verb

What happens when a group of words is missing a subject or a verb?

• It becomes a sentence fragment!

Sentence Fragments

What are sentence fragments?

• A group of words that is missing a subject or a verb.
  

• It does not express a complete thought.

Multiple Choice

Is this a complete sentence or a sentence fragment?

"comes back to UAE on September 18th."

• Sentence Fragment

• Complete Sentence

Multiple Choice

Is this a complete sentence or a sentence fragment?

"Astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi comes back to UAE on September 18th."

• Sentence Fragment

• Complete Sentence

Sneaky type of sentence!

Run-on sentences

They are a group of words that has 2 or more sentences inside 1 sentence.
- It has 2 or more subjects, and 2 or more verbs.

- It must be split into 2 sentences to be fixed.

Run-on sentence

Example:

- Charlie knocked on the door Billy opened it.

Run-on sentence

Example:

- Charlie knocked on the door Billy opened it.

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Run-on sentence

Example:

- Charlie knocked on the door. Billy opened it.

Multiple Choice

Is this a complete sentence or a run-on sentence?

Captain Sultan Al Neyadi went to space He comes back on September 18th.

• Complete sentence

• Run-on sentence

Captain Sultan Al Neyadi went to space he comes back to UAE on September 18th.

Captain Sultan Al Neyadi went to space. He comes back to UAE on September 18th.

Multiple Choice

What is this?

"UAE introduced"

• Run-on sentence

• Sentence fragment

• Complete sentence

Multiple Choice

What is this?

"The UAE introduced new firefighting robots."

• Run-on sentence

• Sentence fragment

• Complete sentence

Multiple Choice

What is this?

"is my favorite subject."

• Run-on sentence

• Sentence fragment

• Complete sentence

Multiple Choice

What is this?

"I did my homework my teacher gave me a full mark."

• Run-on sentence

• Sentence fragment

• Complete sentence

Multiple Choice

What is this?

"English is a fun class."

• Run-on sentence

• Sentence fragment

• Complete sentence

Multiple Choice

What is this?

"Abu Dhabi is a big city it is the largest emirate in UAE"

• Run-on sentence

• Sentence fragment

• Complete sentence

Correct these 3 sentences. If it is a run-on sentence, split it. If it is a sentence fragment, complete it.

1. UAE introduced new robots called 'Wabel' they are firefighters.

2. are firefighters.

3. The students