1. The Complete Sentence

2. Three Parts of a Sentence
 Subject what/who the sentence is about
 Verb action of the sentence
 Predicate tells us what action is about
S V P
The boy ran all the way home today.

3. Fragments
• Fragments are incomplete sentences. They
happen when you do not have all the parts of
a sentence together.
v P
drove his car into a ditch
S V P
The old gentleman drove his car into a ditch

4. Run-On Sentences
• Sentences that express too many thoughts.
• They can be separated into individual
sentences themselves.
The girl wanted to dance all the time even
when the bad news was given to her she still
continued to dance.

5. Fix the Run-on Sentence
• The girl wanted to dance all the time even
when the bad news was given to her she still
continued to dance.
Find the complete sentence within and separate
S V P
The girl wanted to dance all the time.
Even when the bad news was given to her,
S V P
she still continued to dance.

6. Fix the Run-on Sentence
• The girl wanted to dance all the time even
when the bad news was given to her she still
continued to dance.
Find the complete sentence within and separate
S V P
The girl wanted to dance all the time.
Even when the bad news was given to her,
S V P
she still continued to dance.