IXL Level K Grammar/Mechanics Sent Frag/RunOn + Phrases/Clauses

Find the Dependent Clause:

"I walked to the store secretly hoping to see Andrea on the way there."

• secretly hoping to see Andrea on the way there.

• hoping to see Andrea

• I walked to the store

• see Andrea on the way there.

Find the Dependent Clause:

"Colin, my son's best friend, is an excellent student."

• Collin,

• is an excellent student

• Collin, my son's

• my son's best friend

Is this a run-on sentence:

"Right-handedness is controlled by genetics, interestingly enough, the same genes are also responsible for the brain becoming more specialized at certain tasks."

• Yes

• No

Is this a run-on sentence:

"An avalanche occurs when a large slab of snow tears away from its resting spot on a slope that has at least a thirty-degree grade; often triggered by human activity, avalanches are nevertheless natural disasters."

• Yes

• No

Is this a run-on sentence:

"In the 1970s, Asian carb were imported to clean ponds on aquaculture farms in the south; they are believed to have escaped and spread, negatively affecting fish populations as far north as the Great Lakes."

• Yes

• No

Is this a run-on sentence:

"When the female jewel wasp is ready to lay an egg, she injects a toxin into a cockroach to paralyze it, drags the cocroach to a burrow, and then lays her egg on the cockreach, which will become food for the hatched larva."

• Yes

• No

Is there a sentence fragment:

"Enterovirus D68 was first discovered in 1962. It mainly affects children."

• Yes

• No

Is this a sentence fragment:

"A program called 'Container' offering twelve artists a month-long residency devoted to their painging, sculpture, or other visual art onboard a cargo ship."

• Yes

• No

Is this a sentence fragment:

"During the construction of Mount Rushmore, approximately eight hundred million pounds of rock from the mountain to create the monument."

• Yes

• No

Which is the best way to complete the text:

"Now that they've retired, my grandparents spend most weekends volunteering for local ______ hosting dinner parties at their lake home."

• charities; or

• charities or

• charities, or