Sophia Learning
Sophia: Correcting Run on Sentences and Comma Splices
A twelve-slide presentation explaining run-on sentences and comma splices and providing five solutions to correcting these sentence errors.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Run on Sentences
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Repairing Run on Sentences
An exercise with ten sentences to help students identify and correct run-on sentences. Students read the sentence and then click on the answer choice that corrects any errors in the sentence. After making their choice, students can see...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
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.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Run on Sentences
Rules and examples for using commas when writing a complex sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Fused Sentence
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a fused, or run-on, sentence.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Instruction Clauses
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:...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Technology and the World: Technology and Grammar: Part Two
This lesson focuses on run-on sentences and comma splices and how to correct them. It features links to on-line information to help with run-ons: The Writing Center and Run-Ons and FunBrain grammar games. It also provides a teacher-made...
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]
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Connecting Writing With Grammar
"Connecting Writing with Grammar" offers links to six exercises in English usage and sentence structure.
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...
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Grammar Guidelines
Get a collection of self-help handouts on different parts of speech and common usage topics.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Link Clauses With Semicolon
Semicolons join two closely related independent clauses in a single sentence. Without these, there would be run-on sentences that no one could slow down! [0:57]