Fixing Fragments & Run-Ons
Recognise and correct sentence fragments (incomplete sentences lacking a subject or predicate) and run-on sentences (two or more independent clauses joined without proper punctuation or conjunctions)
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If your child's writing has a sentence like "Running down the street." or two ideas jammed together without any punctuation, can they spot that something's wrong and fix it?
Recognise and correct sentence fragments (incomplete sentences lacking a subject or predicate) and run-on sentences (two or more independent clauses joined without proper punctuation or conjunctions)
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- Identify a sentence fragment by checking whether it has both a subject and a predicate, e.g. recognise 'Running through the park' as a fragment and correct to 'The dog was running through the park'
- Identify a run-on sentence where two independent clauses are fused without punctuation or a conjunction, e.g. 'I like cats I also like dogs' and correct using a full stop, comma + conjunction, or semicolon
- Edit a paragraph to fix fragments and run-ons, choosing the most effective correction strategy for each error
“If your child's writing has a sentence like "Running down the street." or two ideas jammed together without any punctuation, can they spot that something's wrong and fix it?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Grammar & Punctuation
- Age range
- Ages 9–10
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