Fragments And Run On Sentences. This handout defines various sentence structures, presents sample sentences, and provides strategies for correcting run-ons, comma splices, and fragments. At its base, a sentence is made up of a subject and a verb.
This sentence is a run-on because it can be separated into two complete sentences. I remember waiting in the casualty department for ages. See combining sentences for more information.
Revise each fragment or run-on sentence so that it is a complete, properly punctuated sentence.
Run-on sentences and fragments are the most common sentence errors for students who are learning how to construct sentences and how to combine sentences in English.
All a series of words needs is a capital at the beginning and ending punctuation and voilà! An independent clause is a group of words containing a My father picked me up and ran with me to the hospital. The first occurs when a writer puts no mark of punctuation and no coordinating conjunction In order to better understand run-on sentences and comma splices, it is important to review the basics of writing a grammatically correct simple sentence Run-on sentences are a problem because they make it difficult to tell where one sentence ends and the next one begins.