sentences project

SentencesActual sentences,

Sentence fragments, and Run-OnsPacy Gilliam

Mrs. Gardner’s 5th Grade English Project

December 8, 2014

What is a sentence? A complete sentence must:

› Have a subject The subject tells who or what does the

action.› Have a predicate

The predicate contains the verb and tells what the action is.

A sentence is a group of words that has a complete and independent thought.

What is a Sentence Fragment?

A sentence fragment is a group of words that doesn’t state a complete thought.

Sometimes a fragment is missing a subject.

Sometimes a fragment is missing a verb.

Other times, a fragment has a subject and a verb, but the thought still isn’t complete.

REMEMBER

The length of a sentence really has nothing to do with whether a sentence is a run-on or not. Even a very short sentence could be a run-on.

Example: › Incorrect: The books are heavy don’t carry

them.› Correct: The books are heavy. Don’t carry

them.

Sentences Can Be Tricky

Example: BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO BUFFALO.

Buffalo! It's a noun! It's a city! It's a verb (meaning "to intimidate")! It plays on reduced relative clauses, different part-of-speech readings of the same word, and center embedding, all in the same sentence. Stare at it until you get the following meaning: "Bison from Buffalo, New York, who are intimidated by other bison in their community, also happen to intimidate other bison in their community.“

(Source: http://theweek.com/article/index/240886/7-sentences-that-sound-crazy-but-are-still-grammatical)

What is a run-on?

A run-on is two or more sentences put together without the correct punctuation or capitalization.

A reader cannot tell where one sentence ends and the next one begins.