Miss Cartwright introduces a video focused on understanding and correcting sentence fragments. The video aims to help students define and identify complete sentences and sentence fragments, and provides three strategies to convert fragments into complete sentences. Examples are given to illustrate complete sentences and fragments, and students are encouraged to practice identifying and correcting fragments.

What is the main focus of today's video?

• Using punctuation marks

• Writing essays

• Sentence fragments

• Reading comprehension

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B

Which of the following is NOT a requirement for a complete sentence?

• Expresses a complete thought

• Contains at least one adjective

• Ends with a punctuation mark

• Starts with a capital letter

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CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

In the sentence 'Fred got hungry,' what is the verb?

• Fred

• got

• hungry

• Fred got

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Which of the following is a sentence fragment?

• She runs every morning.

• The cat slept on the mat.

• Ate the cupcake.

• They went to the park.

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CCSS.L.4.1F

What is missing in the fragment 'Ate the cupcake'?

• Verb

• Subject

• Adjective

• Punctuation

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CCSS.L.4.1F

How can you fix the fragment 'When I went to the movies'?

• Drop the word 'When'

• Join it with a complete sentence

• Add a subject

• Add a comma

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CCSS.L.4.1F

Which strategy involves adding missing words to fix a fragment?

• Adding a comma

• Dropping some words

• Joining with a complete sentence

• Adding the missing words

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CCSS.L.4.1F

What should you do to fix the fragment 'Because I ate too many cupcakes'?

• Drop the word 'Because'

• Add a subject

• Join it with another sentence

• Add a comma

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CCSS.L.4.1F

Which of the following is a complete sentence?

• Running through the park.

• While she was reading.

• The dog barked loudly.

• After the rain stopped.

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CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

What should you be able to do by the end of the video?

• Use complex punctuation

• Identify and fix sentence fragments

• Write a novel

• Analyze literature

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CCSS.L.4.1F