Run-on Sentences: Spotting Run-on Sentences

Application 1
Instructions Click on a "sentence" button, and a run-on sentence will appear. Put an asterisk next to any dependent word that you find in the sentence, and then identify the point at which the clauses are improperly connected with a slash mark (/). Then identify the subject and verb (S-V) of the clauses as asked. Remember that the word "not" or its contracted form is not part of a verb. Example: Because the weather turned so cool, we've changed our plans, we will not go to the beach today. Because the weather turned so cool, we've changed our plans, / we will not go to the beach today. S-V of dependent clause: weather turned S-V of first independent clause: we've changed S-V of second independent clause: we will go 1.
S/V, 1st indep. clause: S/V, 2nd indep. clause: S/V, dep. clause:
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S/V, 1st dep. clause: S/V, 1st indep. clause: S/V, 2nd indep clause: S/V, 2nd dep clause:
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S/V, 1st dep. clause: S/V, Dep. clause: S/V, 2nd indep clause:
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S/V, 1st dep. clause: S/V, 2nd indep clause:
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S/V, 1st dep. clause: S/V, 2nd indep. clause: S/V, Dep clause:
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S/V, 1st dep. clause: S/V, 1st indep. clause: S/V, 2nd indep clause: S/V, 2nd dep clause:
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S/V, 1st indep. clause: S/V, 2nd indep. clause:
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S/V, 1st indep. clause: S/V, 2nd indep. clause:
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S/V, 1st indep. clause: S/V, 2nd indep. clause: S/V, Dep clause:
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S/V, 1st indep. clause: S/V, 2nd indep clause:

CONTENTS MAIN PAGE 9.1 Pretest 9.2 Your Writing: Describing a Process 9.3 Spotting Run-on Sentences 9.4 Correcting Run-on Sentences 9.5 Summary of Solutions 9.6 Avoiding Run-on Sentences 9.7 Review & Practice Part 1 9.7 Review & Practice Part 2 9.8 Fun With Grammar: The 200-Word Sentence 9.9 Return to Your Writing 9.10 Mastery Test on Run-ons