Identify whether each of the examples is a fragment, run-on, or sentence.
1. During the robbery, the crook left behind his gun, wallet, and keys and the police were then able to identify him.
Fragment Run-on Sentence
2. After calling her boss and telling him that she no longer needed that job to fulfill the various needs of her life, which has been tumultuous since she moved away from home.
Fragment Run-on Sentence
3. First, stir the boiling broth, then let it cool.
Fragment Run-on Sentence
4. Wash the car.
Fragment Run-on Sentence
5. Bill and his friend went looking for used books they did not find any.
Fragment Run-on Sentence
6. The people who live at the end of the block and never properly dispose of their garbage, which ends up all over the street until their neighbors clean the mess up.
Fragment Run-on Sentence
7. Do the laundry, then you can go to the party.
Fragment Run-on Sentence
8. Since no one answer exists to the question that keeps him up at night and no one person who can help him overcome the obstacles before him.
Fragment Run-on Sentence
9. For all of those who have helped me achieve the dream of becoming a professional basket weaver and to all of those who said that I could not make a proper living doing what I love best.
Fragment Run-on Sentence
10. I can.
Fragment Run-on Sentence
Answers
1. Run-on (needs a comma before "and the police")
2. Fragment (no independent clause)
3. Run-on (comma splice that joins independent clauses incorrectly)
4. Sentence
5. Run-on (independent clauses joined incorrectly)
6. Fragment (no verb for the independent clause)
7. Run-on (comma splice)
8. Fragment (no independent clause)
9. Fragment (no independent clause)
10. Sentence.