Use the time tonight to take some of the online quizzes and read more about fragments and run-ons. Take notes on things that are new to you. Write down any key ideas. Turn in your notes before you leave. If you have time, start working on skillsbank-- writing-- sentence structure--
The Skillsbank builds on your knowledge of parts of speech and works on more specific skills. It should help you master some of the basics of writing.
Helpful Hints
Some fragments are harder to spot than others. Here are some hints to help you find them:
a.. Read your writing aloud. Doing this will help you hear incomplete
sentences.
b.. As you read aloud, listen for the subject and verb. If you cannot hear both, you have a fragment on your hands.
c.. Watch for subordinate (dependent) clauses. These clauses contain a subject and a verb but they cannot stand alone as sentences; they are not independent. The following is an example of a subordinate clause:
After my father(subject) returned (verb) from the war, . . .
The word "after" is a subordinating conjunction, and it makes the clause
dependent.
KNOW THESE---Subordinating Conjunctions that introduce subordinate (dependent)clauses
after as before since until
when whenever while because even though
unless whereas if so that provided that in order that
that although though
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