Bell Ringer 8/27/2014

•Wednesday Bell Ringer

•Place your homework on your desk.

Opening

•BRAINSTORM! •With your partner, write down everything you know about sentences.

Learning Target

•Today I am learning about run-ons and sentence fragments because avoiding these makes my writing better.

Pg. 4: Run-Ons & Fragments

Run-OnsFragments

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Nickname: first name last initial

Avoiding Sentence Fragments &

Run-Ons

Helping you share your ideas with the world!

Why?!

•Sentence fragments and run-on sentences can confuse your reader.

Fragments

• Threw the baseball. (WHO threw the baseball?!?!)

• Mark and his friends. (WHAT did they do?)

• Around the corner. (WHO? WHAT? HUH?)

Fragments

A fragment is a group of words that does not express a complete

thought.

Something important is missing, and you are left wondering

What is this about? or What happened?

Fragments

A fragment may be missing a SUBJECT…Threw the baseball. (Who threw the baseball?)

• A fragment may be missing a PREDICATE…

Mark and his friends. (What about them?)

• A fragment may be missing BOTH…Around the corner. (Who was? What

happened?)

fRAGMENTS

You can correct a fragment by adding the missing part of speech.

Add a subject: Rob threw the baseball.

Add a verb: Mark and his friends laughed.

Add both: A dog ran around the corner.

Run-Ons

A run-on is two thoughts put together in the same sentence.

• The two ideas may or may not be related.

• A run-on can be fixed by adding proper punctuation to separate the two complete thoughts.

Run-Ons

• Tyler delivered newspapers in the rain he got very wet.

• Kevin and his dog went for a walk it was a beautiful day.

• On Monday we went outside for recess it was fun.

Run-Ons

• There are three ways to correct a run-on:

1.Add a period and a capital letter.

2.Add a comma and a FANBOYS conjunction.

3.Add a semicolon.

Run-Ons

• Let’s correct a sentence using a period and a capital letter!

• Tyler delivered newspapers in the rain he got very wet. WRONG! RUN-ON!

• Tyler delivered newspapers in the rain. He got very wet. RIGHT! SENTENCES!

Run-On

• Let’s correct a sentence using a semicolon!

• Kevin and his dog went for a walk it was a beautiful day. WRONG! RUN-ON!

• Kevin and his dog went for a walk; it was a beautiful day. RIGHT! SENTENCES!

Run-On

• Let’s correct a sentence using a comma and a FANBOYS conjunction!

• On Monday we went outside for recess it was fun. WRONG! RUN-ON!

• On Monday we went outside for recess, and it was fun. RIGHT! SENTENCES!

You’ve done a great job identifying and correcting fragments and run-ons! But the real test of your knowledge is in your own writing. You now have to remember what you’ve learned and apply it to your own writing. A great place to do this is in the editing stage of the writing process. When you check your work, keep an eye out for fragments and run-ons!!

Closing

On Edmodo, write one sentence explaining what you learned today.

• 1. IB Learner Profile Terms• 2. Independent/Dependent Clauses• 3. Sentence Structure• 4. Runons & Fragments