Grammarnotes on Your Own Activities

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GrammarNotes on your own activities

Lesson 2: Correcting Run-on Sentences

What is a run-on sentence?

Identify the following items as correct sentences (C) or run-ons (R). Be prepared to explain your answers.

1. Exercise can increase the efficiency of your muscles, as well as your muscles’ strength and size.

2. Aerobic exercise helps your heart pump more efficiently, then the number of blood vessels in your muscles increases.

3. ATP is a complex molecule scientists consider it the cell’s fuel.

Correcting a run-on sentence: Separate sentences

Revise the following sentences by making each into two separate sentences. Be prepared to explain your answers.

1. The weather was terrible yesterday. We had to cancel band practice.

2. Next summer I will travel to Argentina on a study program. The program requires students to stay with a local family.

3. Domestic canaries are usually yellow. If red peppers are part of their diet, canaries may be bright orange.

Correcting a run-on sentence: Compound sentence

Revise the following run-on sentences by making each into one into a compound sentence. Be prepared to explain your answers.

1. This book is taking a long time to read the characters are really interesting.

2. Send me an e-mail about the club meeting I might not remember to come.

3. Karla is making a fruit salad for the party I’ll bring some raw vegetables and dip.

4. Maya trained hard all summer she won her event in the cross-country meet.

Correcting a run-on sentence: Complex sentence

Revise the following run-on sentences by making one of the clauses into a subordinate clause. Be prepared to explain your answers.

1. The baseball game was stopped in the seventh inning heavy lightning began.

2. I got up early this morning, I was still late for school.

3. The Spanish explorer Cortes landed in Mexico, he and his men marched to the Aztec capital.

4. The baby stopped crying his mother fed him a bottle.

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