How to Fix Run-On Sentences
Learning how to fix run-on sentences can be challenging for writers of all levels. From beginning writers who don’t have the conceptual grasp of a complete thought to more experience writers who get...
View ArticleHow to Identify Subjects and Predicates
Learning how to identify subjects and predicates will help students and employees comprehend sentences and avoid sentence fragments and run-ons in their writing. Sentence Subjects Definition: The...
View ArticleHow to Teach Students to Write in Complete Sentences
Developing writers often have problems writing in complete sentences. Fragmented speech, such as “Catch you later,” and text messaging, such as POS RU GO-N? help to perpetuate this problem....
View ArticleFree Grammar and Mechanics Resources
How do most teachers teach grammar and mechanics? Frankly, many of us just are not teaching these subjects, except as a few weeks of drill and kill worksheets prior to the standardized test. Teachers...
View ArticleSentence Fragments
Sentence fragments are dependent clauses that cannot exist on their own. A dependent clause either needs to be joined to an independent clause (just like a child must be connected to his or her...
View ArticleRun-on Sentences
Run-‐on sentences can be easy to fix, but hard to spot. The reason for the difficulty is that usually we can figure out what the writer intended to say. For example: I like to eat Henry likes to...
View ArticleHow to Fix Sentence Fragments
Learning how to fix sentence fragments is challenging to writers of all levels. Inexperienced writers may write in sentence fragments because they do not understand what constitutes a complete thought...
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