Bell Ringer 8272014 Wednesday Bell Ringer Place your

Bell Ringer 8/27/2014 • Wednesday Bell Ringer • Place your homework on your

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-Ons Fragments

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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? )

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

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

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