Complete Sentences

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Complete Sentences
A capital letter
How do they start?
a period.
How do they end?
A question mark?
An exclamation point!
Main clause
Plus they have a
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Main Clause
The bananas rotting at the bottom of Kyles book
bag have soaked his English short story.
An Independent subject
A verb
Did you notice the gum stuck in your hair?
A complete thought
I cannot believe that you didnt pay attention in
Mr. Brooks class!
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Comma Splices Fused Sentences
What are they?
Problem sentences that contain two or more main
clauses incorrectly joined together.
A comma splice incorrectly joins two main clauses
with a comma.
9-1 didnt pay attention at all today, 9-1 was
held in at lunch time because they were bad.
A fused sentence has two main clauses joined with
no punctuation at all.
Josh rides his mountain bike to school his
tricycle waits in his basement for when he gets
home.
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How to fix comma splices and fused sentences
Make two complete sentences
Josh rides his mountain bike to school. His
tricycle waits in his basement for when he gets
home.
Use a comma and a conjunction
Josh rides his mountain bike to school, and his
tricycle waits in his basement for when he gets
home.
Subordinate Conjunction
After, once, until, although, when, as, rather
than, whenever, because, than, that
Although, Josh rides his mountain bike to school,
his tricycle waits in his basement for when he
gets home.
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Fragments
What is a fragment?
A sentence missing a main clause
Seth robbed the bank
Because hungry sharks flashed on the surface of
the waves.
to buy new jewelry for his greedy girlfriend.
Laura Barr decided it would be a better idea to
swim tomorrow
It was obvious Courtney was nervous because she
was
forgetting all the words to her rap.
Mr. Brooks saw some things telling him 9-2 was
just in his classroom,
for example, paper balls, a broken window, and a
dead cat.