Sentence Errors: Run-ons/Fused Sentences, Comma Splices, and Fragments

Identify each group of words:

When we were on the bus.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

Identify each group of words:

The clowns were scary, the jester was funny.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

Identify each group of words:

We went through the haunted chateau and the Zombie High School.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

Identify each group of words:

Kevin Durant is a good basketball player, LBJ is bad at basketball.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

Identify each group of words:

The highwire is my favorite the little dogs are a close second.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

Identify each group of words:

Michael Jordan is a good basketball player however Lebron is better.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

Identify each group of words:

Abby wants to learn to snowboard, however, she is nervous.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.2

Identify each group of words:

Abby, the professional snowboarder from Michigan.

• Fragment

• Run-on

• Comma Splice

• Sentence

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

Which option is not a sentence?

• He laughed uncontrollably.
• Rolled along the sidewalk.
• She loved running at night.
• Her dog barked and cried.

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CCSS.L.2.1F

Successful academic essays use language that is clear, concise, and grammatically correct unsuccessful academic essays are unclear, wordy, and grammatically incorrect. 

• no error
• run-on sentence
• comma splice
• sentence fragment

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.4