Sentence Structure

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Sentence Structure

• How to create complete sentences and avoid the
  run-on sentence.

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The Run-on Sentence

• A run-on sentence is when two complete sentences
  are put together with nothing between them.
  Run-ons are sometimes called fused sentences
  because two sentences are fused or glued together
  into one long, grammatically-incorrect sentence!

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Examples
Susan walked down the road she went to the
store. He went to the game he had a great time He
drove he crashed
Notice how each of the sentences needs something
to join its phrases.
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Avoiding Run-on Sentences

• There are 5 ways to show the boundary between
  sentences
• and avoid the creation of a run-on.
• ADD
• Period.
• Comma and an appropriate Conjunction. (a word
  that joins two phrases and, but, or, for, yet,
  nor or so)
• He drove, and he crashed.
• Semicolon.
• 4. Subordinating Conjunction. (a word that joins
  two phrases after, although, before, unless,
  since, until, when, while, if etc.)
• After he drove, he crashed.
• 5. Joining Adverb.

He drove. He crashed.
Adding only a comma is not enough to
fix this sentence. Commas are not strong enough
to join two sentences.
To do so would create He drove, he crashed.
This is an error called a Comma splice.
He drove he crashed.
He drove however, he crashed.
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Avoiding Run-on Sentences

• If you run out of breath before the end of a
  sentence, or you notice that two or more of the
  phrases in the sentence do not belong together,
  then you may need to repair a run-on sentence!