Sunday, September 8, 2013

Week 2 Grammar Worksheets -- Sentence Fragments & Run-Ons

DIRECTIONS Determine which of the following word groups are sentence
fragments and which are complete sentences.
If the group of words is a complete sentence, write S.
If the group of words is a fragment, write F.
______ 1. If your parents think today’s fashions are weird.
______ 2. They should see the clothes people wore in the Middle Ages.
______ 3. Patterns of floral or geometric shapes popular.
______ 4. Liked clothes that were half one color and half another.
______ 5. Might have one green leg and one red leg.
______ 6. People often heavy leather belts decorated with metal and jewels.
______ 7. Edges of clothing into shapes called dagges.
______ 8. Sleeves with streamers that were two or three feet long.
______ 9. Shoes had long toes that were padded to retain their shape.
______ 10. Tights of velvet or silk.
______ 11. When clothes were edged and lined in fur.
______ 12. Layers very common in medieval clothing.
______ 13. Was a way of displaying wealth.
______ 14. The more clothes a person could afford to wear, the wealthier that person was.
______ 15. Might wear a short-sleeved tunic over a long-sleeved tunic, with a sleeveless mantle
over all.
______ 16. The usual head covering for men a hood with an attached shoulder cape and a long,
extended point, like a tail.
______ 17. Women wore a neckcloth pinned to their braids, hiding their hair.
______ 18. On top of the head, would wear a veil, a linen crown, or a small, round hat.
______ 19. In the later Middle Ages, women wore jeweled metal nets over their coiled braids.
______ 20. Current fashions a little boring in comparison.

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DIRECTIONS Determine which of the following word groups are sentence
fragments and which are complete sentences.
If the group of words is a complete sentence, write S.
If the group of words is a fragment, write F.
______ 1. Antarctica has the highest average elevation of the seven continents.
______ 2. No native people on Antarctica.
______ 3. Because it is too cold.
______ 4. Although scientists and other workers live in Antarctica for about a year at a time.
______ 5. These people there to study many things.
______ 6. Examine the ozone layer, sleep patterns, and fish survival in subzero temperatures.
______ 7. Ninety-five percent of Antarctica covered with ice.
______ 8. Antarctica approximately 70 percent of the world’s fresh water in its ice.
______ 9. Even though Antarctica is covered in ice and snow, it can be considered a desert.
______ 10. Adesert an area that gets very little precipitation.
______ 11. Antarctica receives only two inches of rain each year.
______ 12. Also has very high winds.
______ 13. Sometimes winds as high as 200 miles per hour.
______ 14. Many animals in the ocean around Antarctica.
______ 15. Include whales and seals.
______ 16. One type of bird found on Antarctica is the penguin.
______ 17. Antarctica so isolated that its snow and ice are very pure.
______ 18. The continent is far away from pollution.
______ 19. Amountain range across the continent.
______ 20. Antarctica’s Mount Erebus an active volcano.

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DIRECTIONS Decide which of the following groups of words are run-on sentences.
If the group of words is correct, write C; if it is a run-on, write R.
Revise each run-on sentence by (1) making it two separate sentences or
(2) using a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
EXAMPLE Bears can live in many different habitats, they occupy mountains, forests,
and arctic wilderness.
______ 1. Brown bears include the grizzly and the kodiak, the largest brown bear is the kodiak.
______ 2. Kodiak bears weigh as much as 1,700 pounds, they grow to a height of ten feet.
______ 3. Bears can live more than 30 years in the wild.
______ 4. Bears’ sense of smell is more developed than their hearing or sight.
______ 5. Females give birth to as many as four cubs, the cubs stay with their mother two
or three years.
______ 6. Many people are afraid of bears, encounters with bears are actually infrequent.
______ 7. Grizzly bears are solitary animals, they do not want to interact with people.
______ 8. Generally, bears attack only when they are surprised, or when they are protecting
their young.
______ 9. People should always store food and garbage properly, bears could be attracted by
the smell.
______ 10. Never try to outrun a bear, it can run more than 30 miles per hour.

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DIRECTIONS Decide which of the following groups of words are run-on sentences.
If the group of words is correct, write C; if it is a run-on, write R.
Revise each run-on sentence by (1) making it two separate sentences or
(2) using a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
EXAMPLE Albert Einstein was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth
century, he changed the way people view the universe.
______ 1. School in Munich was too rigid and boring for young Einstein he did not do well.
______ 2. However, young Einstein showed a talent for mathematics, at the age of 12,
he taught himself Euclidean geometry.
______ 3. After finishing secondary school, he entered the Federal Polytechnic Academy
in Switzerland, he did not like the teaching methods there.
______ 4. The academy frustrated him he could learn in a way that interested him.
______ 5. Einstein chose to educate himself, he missed classes often and spent the time studying
physics on his own.
______ 6. His professors had low opinions of him, he graduated anyway in 1900.
______ 7. In 1905, he published a paper on physics the University of Zürich awarded him a Ph.D.
for this work.
______ 8. In the same year, he published four more papers that presented new thoughts on the
nature of light and other important concepts.
______ 9. Physicists resisted his ideas at first, eventually his general theory of relativity was
confirmed through observation.
______ 10. Einstein achieved international recognition, in 1921 he received the Nobel Prize
in physics.

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