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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Sentence Structure
This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.
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.
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
Learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sentence Fragments
Sentence fragments can't stand alone, because they do not express a complete thought. Run-ons put two complete sentences together in one sentence without separating them. [0:35]
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition: Types of Writing: Review
This lesson is a review of the unit on types of writing including purpose, audience, tone, the writing process, the four types of writing, and sentence fragments and run-ons. A quiz is provided.
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...
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Fragments: Lesson 1
This lessons introduces sentence fragments. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Sentence Fragments."
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Grammar Guidelines
Get a collection of self-help handouts on different parts of speech and common usage topics.