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Sentence Mistakes
Sentence Mistakes: Run-Ons, Fragments, & Comma Splices
Review:
Each time you write something new, you are practicing sentence variety. So, let's look at a couple of mistakes that can cause problems for your ever-growing abilities.
The Goal:
In this lesson, you will learn two types of common mistakes writers make when constructing sentences: the run-on sentence and the sentence fragment. Knowing these mistakes and how to fix them is essential for completing your writing scaffold.
Directions:
1. Be sure to spend time reviewing the narrator's comments. There are screenshots of the videos in the printables.
2. Watch the first video on run-on sentences.
3. Watch the second video on sentence fragments.
4. The third video talks about a third type of sentence mistake: comma splices. Remember those?