Run-on Sentences and Sentence Fragments
If the sentences below are run-ons or fragments, correct them by adding/removing/changing words or punctuation marks. (Note: some sentences are correct!)
Basic:
- The dogs run, they are very fast.
- When apples fall from trees in the fall.
- While I hope that I will get into a great college after high school.
- Even though rats and mice look very similar, they are actually difference species,
- Schools are supposed to teach children academics, they are also expected to teach character lessons.
- Teachers have to control a room, and they need to inspire students to learn.
Advanced:
- Many psychologists do not use hypnosis in their practices, it is because they know very little about it and are wary of it as a result.
- Since the novels of Elizabeth Phelps are less well known today than many of her contemporaries' works, one is surprised to learn that she was once a best-selling author.
- Even the film’s most heroic characters are played with straightforward realism, this restraint results in a very powerful story.
- Although gale-force winds often pass through the Eiffel Tower, causing it to sway no more than four inches.
- Even though the chain was supposed to be strong enough to lift 50 tons.
- Although for many years, television was people's primary mode of viewing and despite the fact that streaming is now catching up with network and cable provided viewing.