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Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Crucible: Fragments and Run on Sentences
This lesson focuses on fragments and run-on sentences including explaining dependent and independent clauses, fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and coordinating conjunctions. It provides examples and links to quizzes.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Appropriateness of Sentence Fragments
This slideshow lesson focuses on the appropriateness of sentence fragments. It defines sentence fragments and discusses how writers use them: to gain the reader's attention, to emphasize an important word or phrase, to answer a question,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Correcting Sentence Fragments
This slideshow lesson focuses on sentence fragments and how to correct them. It defines fragments, gives two methods for identifying them, provides various ways to correct them with examples, and discusses subordinators and fragments...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Fragments Wisely
This lesson focuses on the intentional use of sentence fragments. It offers a YouTube video asking the viewer to spot the fragments, and a PowerPoint presentation listing 5 appropriate uses of fragments: to get the reader's attention, to...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Sentence Structure
This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Sentence Fragments Exercise 3
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sentence Fragments Exercise 1
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Complete Sentence Fragments Exercise 2
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition: Types of Writing: Review
This lesson is a review of the unit on types of writing including purpose, audience, tone, the writing process, the four types of writing, and sentence fragments and run-ons. A quiz is provided.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Fragments
An eight-slide presentation introducing sentence fragments and explaining how to identify them within a text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
Learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying sentence fragments and then fixing them.
Other
Rhl School: English Basics: Real Sentences
How do you know that a group of words is really a sentence? This resource features examples of complete and incomplete sentences that students can identify and fix.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Composition:types of Writing: Sentence Errors
This lesson focuses on sentence errors like fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and fused sentences. It expains these errors, provides examples, and offers an interactive practice activity.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Technology and the World: Technology and Grammar: Part 1
This lesson focuses on complete sentences, fragments, subordinating conjunctions, and dependent clauses. It defines each and provides examples; then provides a self-assessment in which students read sentences or parts of sentences and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sentence Fragments
Sentence fragments can't stand alone, because they do not express a complete thought. Run-ons put two complete sentences together in one sentence without separating them. [0:35]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Appropriateness of Sentence Fragments: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses sentence fragments and how to use them appropriately. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Appropriateness of Sentence Fragments."
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Sentence Fragments
This writing lab site defines sentence fragments and gives a tip to help determine whether or not a group of words is a fragment.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 3: Finding Fragments in a Long Passage
Practice sentence skills by looking at each sentence in a passage and deciding if it is a complete sentence or a fragment.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The University of Sydney: The Write Site: Unit 1: Sentence Fragments
A learning module with three lessons, four practice exercises, and a summary designed to teach what sentence fragments are and how they can be corrected.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Presentations: Fragments, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences
A PowerPoint slide explaining common sentence errors and how to correct them. Questions that may be found on standardized tests are included.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a flipchart that introduces the four types of sentences and then works on complete and incomplete sentences.