Sentences, Fragments, and Run-ons Online Game
Authored by Mervat Ahmed
English
7th - 8th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on sentence structure identification, specifically distinguishing between complete sentences, sentence fragments, and run-on sentences. Designed for middle school students in grades 7-8, this assessment requires students to analyze grammatical completeness and proper sentence boundaries. Students must recognize that complete sentences contain both a subject and predicate and express a complete thought, while fragments lack essential components like subjects or verbs, and run-on sentences improperly join two or more independent clauses without appropriate punctuation or conjunctions. The core concepts students need include understanding independent clauses, recognizing subject-verb relationships, identifying subordinate clauses that cannot stand alone, and recognizing when sentences contain multiple independent clauses that require proper separation through punctuation or coordinating conjunctions. Created by Mervat Ahmed, an English teacher in Saudi Arabia who teaches grades 7 and 8. This diagnostic tool effectively supports grammar instruction by providing immediate feedback on students' ability to identify proper sentence construction. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge about sentence structure, use it for guided practice during grammar lessons, or assign it as homework to reinforce classroom learning. The quiz serves excellently as formative assessment, allowing teachers to quickly identify which students struggle with fragment recognition versus run-on identification, enabling targeted remediation. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards L.7.1 and L.8.1, which require students to demonstrate command of conventions of standard English grammar when writing or speaking, and supports the foundational writing standards that emphasize clear and coherent sentence construction.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Available in different colors, such as red, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
Sentence
Fragment
Run-on
Tags
CCSS.L.4.1F
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
At my school, we cannot write or highlight in our textbooks.
Sentence
Fragment
Run-on
Tags
CCSS.L.4.1F
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
I use small sticker flags to mark important passages I write notes on larger self-stick slips of paper.
Sentence
Fragment
Run-on
Tags
CCSS.L.4.1F
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A color-coded system for marking different types of information.
Sentence
Fragment
Run-on
Tags
CCSS.L.4.1F
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Occasionally a teacher will say, "This will be on the test."
Sentence
Fragment
Run-on
Tags
CCSS.L.4.1F
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Marking the page with a red sticker immediately.
Sentence
Fragment
Run-on
Tags
CCSS.L.4.1F
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Red stickers are for high-priority passages, and yellow stickers are for low priority passages.
Sentence
Fragment
Run-on
Tags
CCSS.L.4.1F
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