Sentence Parts & Errors

​ Complete sentences have a subject and a predicate

• The subject is who or what the sentence is about.

  👉The teacher asked the class to be quiet during the test.

• The predicate tells us what the subject does or is.

  👉The teacher asked the class to be quiet during the test.*

• Sentence fragments are missing a subject, predicate, or complete thought.

  👉 Felt happy and content. --- missing a subject

  👉 The locker around the corner. --- missing a predicate

  👉 In the early morning. --- missing a subject & a predicate

  👉 The soup tastes. --- incomplete thought

• Run-ons occur when two complete sentences are combined without proper punctuation.

  👉 I was walking into the store to get some snacks because I was super hungry then I saw my friend John who was skateboarding down the street.

• Add a semicolon (;) in between the two sentences OR create two sentences.

  👉Run-On: Pat loves walking it keeps them fit.

  👉Fixed: Pat loves walking; it keeps them fit.

  👉Fixed: Pat loves walking. It keeps them fit.

Run-ons

• Add a missing subject or predicate; complete the thought

  👉Fragment: Listening to a podcast.

  👉Fixed: I was listening to a

  podcast.

Fragments