You gotta have a subject andĪ verb, put 'em together, slap on a period, you've got a sentence. You're building sentences you have to make sure that what you've got is a subject and a predicate. Of the snowstorm, comma, we stayed home from school, period. Of the snowstorm, period, that wouldn't be a sentence. And if it were just we, period, that also wouldn't be a sentence. Home from school, period, that wouldn't be a sentence. So we've got this sentence here, this independent clause, right. Something could happen, but we don't know what that is, so, because of the snowstorm, Have, doesn't really have a subject or a verb. What we call, not even a, I mean it's not even aĭependent clause, right? It, this thing doesn't Why not? - Well youĭon't tell what happened because of that snowstorm. All right, what aboutīecause of the snowstorm? Is that a sentence, Beth? - Nope. Then you've got the part that finishes the thought, Got a part that names, that's your subject, and Or something performed by that noun our pronoun. Have to have something happen to that noun or pronoun, So you need to have a thing, like a noun, or a pronoun, and then you Order to be a sentence, you need to have both a Right, we're telling about something but we don't know what. To be a sentence either, that's also a fragment. Similarly, if we just had this predicate, and we just said it began ten years ago, oh, that's not enough Here, the whole story, and now we've given it a predicate. All right, so, the whole story began 10 years ago. Would call a predicate, in other words, so we're giving a subject, but we're not telling what Is the whole story missing? - Well we've got a subject but we don't have what we That cannot stand on its own, but nevertheless, incorrectlyĮnds with a period. The way I would put it, is that a fragment is a piece of a sentence So sentence fragments don't tell the whole story. Or it might include who but doesn't tell what happens. Maybe what happens, but doesn't include who, A sentence fragment is whenĪ student writes a sentence and they think it's a sentence, but it's one that tells So today weĪre going to talk about sentence fragments, andīeth you cover these in classes that you teach. Clues that are more difficult to differentiate between sentences and fragments should have higher point value.Grammarians, David here along with my cousin Beth whoĪlso happens to be a teacher. If it's a fragment, the students finish it so it becomes a complete sentence to earn the points. After the clue is revealed, students first have to say whether it is a fragment or complete sentence. Organize students into small groups and have them select from a fragment board of clues. One fun activity that reinforces what is and isn't a sentence fragment is an adaptation of the television game show Jeopardy. The game is best played in small groups, so all students have a chance to earn tokens as they solve the puzzle. The more tokens students acquire, the better their chances of solving the puzzle. Each token a student earns is used to guess a letter in the mystery puzzle. For every sentence a student correctly edits, he gets a token. For example the teacher can pass out a worksheet consisting of five run-on sentences, and ask students to make the proper corrections. Teachers can incorporate run-on sentences into common games, such as Hangman or Wheel of Fortune. This is a sentence fragment because it has no subject or verb, but it does tell you when something. The teacher can also take the activity a step further and have students identify where a comma should be placed in each of the new complete sentences. The sentence fragments was: After the baseball game. The students partner up and finish each other's clauses to turn the fragments into complete sentences. No verb Rushing the field during the football game. They can include things like, "since my brother lost weight," or "after I spilled water on my shirt." The teacher places all the cards in a hat and has each student draw a card. Sentence Fragments & Run-On Sentences A sentence fragment is a group of words that cannot stand. For this activity, the teacher writes down various independent clauses on index cards. One way to modify so they become complete sentences is to finish them. Fragments don't express complete thoughts.
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