Todays Agenda

Information: Runons
Sentences
Exercises p.47
48
Matching Activity
Editing Activity or
Self-Study
Chapter time

HOMEWORK
Articles
p. 73 74
Punctuati
on
Handout

Watch out for: Run-Ons

What is a run-on
sentence?

There was a chicken and a goose

walking around a store no one was
surprised there is bag of money next
to the chicken a bomb is in the bag of
money.

Watch out for: Run-Ons

What coordinating conjunctions
and conjunctive adverbs can
we add to fix this run-on
sentence?
There
was a chicken and a goose walking
around a store no one was surprised there is
bag of money next to the chicken a bomb is in
the bag of money.
There was a chicken and a goose walking
around a store, yet no one was surprised. There
is a bag of money next to the chicken;
surprisingly, a bomb is in the bag of money.

Watch out for: Comma Splices

What is a commasplice?

I have a kitten, its fur

is gold.
There are oranges in the
refrigerator, it is locked.

Watch out for: Comma Splices

What conjunctions can
we use to fix these
problems?
I have a kitten, its fur
is gold.
There are oranges in
the refrigerator, it is
locked.

I have a kitten, and

its fur is gold.
There are oranges in
the refrigerator, but it
is locked.

Take a look
We can also fix run-ons
and comma splices
with conjunctive
adverbs
p. 47 & 48 please