After the sentence, mark whether your item below contains a fragment (F) or a run-on (R-O). Then correct the error in your response.
Exercise: The view was not what the travel agent had described. Where were the rolling hills and that shimmering rivers? That we had expected.
We'll be happy to comment on what YOU THINK the correction would be.
One of those three sentences is either a fragment or a run-on.
Which sentence do you think it is?
Where were the rolling hills and that shimmering rivers? That we had expected. I think this is a Fragment
Correction: Where were the rolling hills and that shimmering rivers? The view was not what the travel agent had described and what we had expected.
Yes. Right!
The idea of a credit card first appeared in 1887. According to Lawrence M. Ausbel, author of “Credit Cards,” in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics.
To determine whether the item contains a fragment or a run-on, we need to understand the definitions of each.
- A fragment is an incomplete sentence that is missing a subject, verb, or both. Fragments often lack a main clause and do not express a complete thought.
- A run-on is a sentence that combines two independent clauses (i.e., complete sentences) without proper punctuation or conjunction. Run-ons can occur when two or more independent clauses are joined without appropriate separators.
Let's analyze the item you provided:
"The view was not what the travel agent had described."
This is a complete sentence with a subject ("The view") and a verb ("was"). Therefore, it is not a fragment or a run-on.
"Now, where were the rolling hills and that shimmering rivers?"
This sentence does not have a subject. It begins with an adverb ("now") and uses a question word ("where") to introduce the subject. To correct the fragment:
"Now, where were the rolling hills and that shimmering river? That is what we had expected."
By adding the subject "That," we have corrected the fragment and created a complete sentence.
So there are no fragments or run-ons in the items you provided.