Correcting errors Chapter 17

What is a sentence fragment?

• A group of words that has a subject, a verb, and that expresses a complete idea.

• A group of words that looks like a sentence but lacks a complete idea.

When two independent clauses run together without proper punctuation or appropriate conjunctions.

• sentence

• phrase

• sentence fragment

• run-on sentence

finished his homework quickly.

• sentence fragment

• run-on sentence

• phrase

• sentence

Some people may think that manual speech dates from this century the beginnings of manual speech go much further back.

• run-on sentence

• sentence fragment

• sentence

• phrase

His name is Girolamo Cardano he lived during the sixteenth centurty.

• sentence fragment

• run-on sentence

• phrase

• sentence

The movie about Cleopatra.

• sentence fragment

• run-on sentence

• phrase

• sentence

Some people may think that manual speech dates from this century the beginnings of manual speech go further back.

Learning about the claouds _______ you predict the weather.

• help

• helps

Some of the books that I used in my report about weather ______ detailed information about clouds.

• give

• gives

Did your uncle or your father take _______ fishing license to the pier.

• his

• her

• their

• ours