/ TOPIC/ LEARNING GOALS:
Run-on Sentences / NAME:
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ESSENTIALQUESTION:How do run-on sentences affect writing?
What are some common ways to fix run-ons?
QUESTIONS/SUBTOPICS: / NOTES:
Avoiding Run-on /
  • Run-on = 2 or more independent clauses have joined incorrectly

sentences /
  • 2 types of run-on sentences: fused & comma splice

Fused Sentence /
  • Connects 2 independent clauses with no punctuation

  • Ex: Some students think they can study for an important exam by cramming all night they are probably wrong.

Comma Splice /
  • Connects 2 independent clauses separated with only a comma

  • Ex: Some students think they can study for an important exam by cramming all night, they are probably wrong.

How to fix run-on /
  1. Period and start a new sentence

sentences /
  • Ex: Some students think they can study for an important exam by cramming all night. They are probably wrong.

  1. Comma + coordinating conjunction

  • Ex: Some students think they can study for an important exam by cramming all night, but they are probably wrong.

  1. Semicolon

  • Ex: Some students think they can study for an important exam by cramming all night; they are probably wrong.

  1. Change independent clause to a dependent clause

  • Ex: Some students think they can study for an important exam by cramming all night even though they are probably wrong.

QUESTIONS/SUBTOPICS: / NOTES:
3 Run-on Traps /
  1. When a pronoun in the second clause refers to a noun in the first clause

  1. When a suggestion or directive occurs in the second clause

  1. When two clauses are connected by a transitional expression

Example 1 /
  • Jeff mowed the grass this morning tonight he will water the flowers and bushes.

Jeff mowed the grass this morning. Tonight he will water the flowers and bushes.
Jeff mowed the grass this morning, andtonight he will water the flowers and bushes.
Jeff mowed the grass this morning; tonight he will water the flowers and bushes.
Because Jeff mowed the grass this morning,tonight he will water the flowers and bushes.
Example 2 /
  • The small girl seemed to be lost, she was crying and looking for her mother.

The small girl seemed to be lost. She was crying and looking for her mother.
The small girl seemed to be lost, forshe was crying and looking for her mother.
The small girl seemed to be lost; she was crying and looking for her mother.
The small girl seemed to be lost because she was crying and looking for her mother.
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