Powerpoint JeopardyFragment and Run-on Trivia

How many fragments and

run-ons?

Fragments and Run-ons

Fragments and Run-ons

Grab Bag

10 20 10 10 10

20 40 20 20 20

30 60 30 30 30

40 80 40 40 40

50 100 50 50 50

Category 1 – 10 points

What is a sentence fragment.

Category 1 – 20 points

What are the two kinds of run-on sentences?

Category 1 – 30 points

What are the four ways to fix a run-on?

Category 1 – 40 points

What is the verb tense for the verb: running?

Category 1 – 50 points

Explain ways to tell if a sentence is a fragment.

Category 2 – 20 pointsIn the following paragraph, identify the number of fragments and run-ons. You will need to be able to defend your answer:

It soon became obvious that Luke’s love of dinosaurs would endure. Anything with dinosaur patterns elicited from Luke expressions of sheer glee. So nearly every gift from his friends of family catered to this taste.

Category 2 – 40 pointsIn the following paragraph, identify the number of fragments and run-ons. You will need to be able to defend your answer:

My sister always dreamed of being a singer. She had grandiose dreams of being famous despite the reproving looks from our every practical grandma. Grandma was a stalwart German who believed things like singing and dancing were frivolous and wouldn’t help in the face of a depression, though the rest of us pretended not to notice.

Category 2 – 60 pointsIn the following paragraph, identify the number of fragments and run-ons. You will need to be able to defend your answer:

As my family gathered around the table, my attention focused on my faux china plate where the source of the reeking smell was laid out before me, it was green!! Not just any green. It was a dark sinister, depressing green, as if from a deep dark forest. The long stalks lay on my plate. Contaminating the wonderful and blessed mashed potatoes and gravy. The pigment grew more menacing the deeper the layers went.

Category 2 – 80 pointsIn the following paragraph, identify the number of fragments and run-ons. You will need to be able to defend your answer:

Before long, representations of dinosaurs adorned his bed sheets and pillow cases. His shower curtain, his bath mat, and even the walls of his room. When Luke’s teachers complete the dinosaur unit and moved onto Native Americans. Luke’s passion for the former did not abate. His parents arranged a trip to various zoos and museums, they visited New York’s Museum of Natural History, whose dinosaur display enthralled the future paleontologist.

Category 2 – 100 pointsIn the following paragraph, identify the number of fragments and run-ons. You will need to be able to defend your answer:

It had been a long week, the ever aloof Rosemary got up from her last meeting, patted her hair into place and strode toward the exit. When Harry, the bumbling mail boy cut her off as she rounded the corner. “Oh goodness, ma’am, I’m so sorry,” Harry stuttered as he banged the cart into cubical walls. Trying to get out of her way. Rosemary just stood there, tapping her foot, not a modicum of empathy for the terrified boy. And when he finally pull the cart back, crumpling to the floor behind it, Rosemary strode forward without looking behind her.

Category 3 – 10 points

Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on or correct. Be able to explain your answer.

Although he had been an often decorated soldier during World War II and had fought many battles for the losing cause of liberalism in Congress.

Category 3 – 20 points

Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on or correct. Be able to explain your answer.

This is going to be the most difficult exam of your college career, you had better start studying for it immediately.

Category 3 – 30 points

Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on or correct. Be able to explain your answer.

She yelled.*

Category 3 – 40 points

Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on or correct. Be able to explain your answer.

Knowing better than anyone else how the state legislature had ignored the needs of the community college system and created a crisis characterized by an uneducated workforce that had no place to go for proper training and realizing that someone had to do something about the situation or the state would begin to lose jobs to states in the American south that were more aggressive in providing and publicizing excellence in education, Representative Fuentes began to lay plans for an education bill that took into consideration the needs of the state's community colleges and the students who attended them.

Category 3 – 50 points

Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on or

correct. Be able to explain your answer.

If we're ever going to get out of here in time, we're going to have to re-write all these papers, set up the desks, and clean the chalkboards; stack those books in the corner and clean up the mess around the wastebasket; notify security about the broken window, the thermostat that Raoul messed up, and the desk that was stolen before we even got here.

Category 4 – 10 points

Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on or correct.

Be able to explain your answer.

Archie Griffin played football at Ohio State University he won the Heisman Trophy in 1974 and 1975.

Category 4 – 20 pointsDetermine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on or correct. Be

able to explain your answer.

My father was a kind and gentle man, however, he was a firm believer in discipline.

Category 4 – 30 points

Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on or correct.

Be able to explain your answer.

We know that new words are constantly coming into our language.

Category 4 – 40 points

Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on or correct. Be

able to explain your answer.

The ninth Harry Potter movie is coming out next weekend let's go see it!

Category 4 – 50 points

Determine if each sentence is a fragment, a run-on or correct.

Be able to explain your answer.

A man scuffled with officers and was hit with a Taser twice before officers handcuffed him.

Category 5 – 10 points

What are the seven FANBOYS?

Category 5 – 20 points

What kinds of clauses start with a subordinating conjunction?

Category 5 – 30 points

What kind of sentence starts with a coordinating conjunction?

Category 5 – 40 points

What is the one grammar thing you MUST learn before moving onto Composition I?

Category 5 – 50 points

Name five subordinating conjunctions.