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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Run Ons, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice identifying run-on sentences, comma splices, and fused sentences.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Correcting Run on Sentences and Comma Splices

For Students 9th - 10th
A twelve-slide presentation explaining run-on sentences and comma splices and providing five solutions to correcting these sentence errors.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Instruction Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on grammar and writing focuses on clauses including dependent and independent clauses and run-on and comma splice sentences. It features links to "Purdue OWL: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses," "Purdue OWL:...
Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 2: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Recognize comma splices and fused sentences by clicking on the error in 20 sentences.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 3: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Recognize comma splices and fused sentences by clicking on the error in 20 sentences.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Run on Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on run-on sentences and comma splices and solutions to fix them. It offers a YouTube video that defines and gives specific methods to correct run-on sentences and a PDF that reviews three solutions to run-ons and...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Composition:types of Writing: Sentence Errors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Crucible: Fragments and Run on Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Avoiding Comma Splices and Run Ons

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An informational page outlining the definitions and uses of comma splices, run-on sentences, and fused sentences. A great resource for students struggling with these in their writing.
Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Comma Splice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a comma splice in the context of a sentence.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Presentations: Fragments, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A PowerPoint slide explaining common sentence errors and how to correct them. Questions that may be found on standardized tests are included.
Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 4: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Choose the best way to correct sentences errors identified in 20 sentences.
Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 5: Finding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Choose the best way to correct sentences errors identified in 20 sentences.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Antonyms and Comma Splices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For Dickens' opening to his Tale of Two Cities, he uses one of the longest series of comma splices in the history of literature. Dickens seemingly did this for stylistic effect. In this lesson, students create their own Dickens-like...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Avoiding Run on Sentences and Comma Splices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to correct a run-on sentence or a comma splice.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comma Splices and Run Ons: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over comma splices and run-ons and discusses how to recognize them. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Comma Splices and Run-ons."
Activity
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 1: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive location/game that focuses on key elements of writing such as commas and their relationship with fused sentences.
Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Run on Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th
A variety of presentation formats including notes, a PowerPoint presentation, activities, and a video [4:52] defining run-on sentences and comma splices and explaining different ways of correcting them.
Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Rules for Fixing Comma Splices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site targets comma splices and fused sentences. It provides information on how to fix them using conjunctions (both coordinating and subordinating) and puntuation.
Activity
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
This writing lab site defines sentence fragments and gives a tip to help determine whether or not a group of words is a fragment.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying sentence fragments and then fixing them.
Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...