SENTENCE ERRORS

FRAGMENT
-does not express a complete thought
-may contain a subject and a verb but is not an independent thought
-to correct fragments, add words or connect the fragment to the sentence from which it is disconnected

Example: B.B. King and Morgan Freeman know a lot about cotton fields. Both having grown up in the Mississippi Delta region. B.B. King from Indianola, Mississippi, and Morgan Freeman from Clarksdale, Mississippi.

*The underlined portions are fragments.

Correct:
B.B. King and Morgan Freeman know a lot about cotton fields, both having grown up in the Mississippi Delta region. B.B. King is from Indianola, Mississippi, and Morgan Freeman is from Clarksdale, Mississippi.

RUN-ON SENTENCES
A run-on is a sentence error caused by running one sentence into another, without putting any punctuation in between.
Example: We all like grammar we all love this class.

How to correct run-on sentences: • Separate them with a period, creating two complete sentences. Example: We all like grammar. We all love this class.

• Link them with a semicolon; this creates two complete sentences just as a period does, but the second sentence doesn’t start with a capital letter.

Example: We like grammar ; we love this class.

• End the first sentence with a semicolon and begin the second with a conjunctive adverb or transitional.

Example: We like grammar ; therefore, we love this class.

• Join the two sentences with a comma and one of the FANBOYS. (FOR, AND, NOR, BUT, OR, YET, SO)

Example: We all like grammar , and we all love this class.

• Join the two separate sentences into one, with a subordinating conjunction or relative pronoun.

Examples: We all like grammar, we all love this class.

Because we all like grammar, we all love this