Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Crucible: Fragments and Run on Sentences
This lesson focuses on fragments and run-on sentences including explaining dependent and independent clauses, fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and coordinating conjunctions. It provides examples and links to quizzes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Recognizing Run Ons and Comma Splices
A seven-question quiz in which students choose the sentence with no errors.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Avoiding Fragments
This entry focuses on forming complete sentences by identifying fragments, comma splices, and fused sentences and learning how to correct them. It provides the rules, examples of errors, and examples of how to correct each type of error.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Presentations: Fragments, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences
A PowerPoint slide explaining common sentence errors and how to correct them. Questions that may be found on standardized tests are included.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Composition:types of Writing: Sentence Errors
This lesson focuses on sentence errors like fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and fused sentences. It expains these errors, provides examples, and offers an interactive practice activity.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
University of North Carolina
Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons
What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Identifying Incorrect Sentences
This learning module focuses on how to identify run-on sentences, comma splices, and sentence fragments.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Sentence Fragments
This writing lab site defines sentence fragments and gives a tip to help determine whether or not a group of words is a fragment.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 13.1: Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that teach how to identify and correct errors in subject/verb agreement, comma splices, sentence fragments, capitalization of titles and...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying sentence fragments and then fixing them.
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Grammar Guidelines
Get a collection of self-help handouts on different parts of speech and common usage topics.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: 15 Shocking Student Writing Fails (Infographic)
This infographic is provided to help alert students about common writing mistakes. The following types of errors are discussed: commas, verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, apostrophes, pronouns, and prepositions.