{"id":70,"date":"2019-12-07T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/coreqenglish1\/chapter\/outcome-run-on-sentences-and-sentence-fragments\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:23:52","slug":"introduction-to-complete-sentences","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/chapter\/introduction-to-complete-sentences\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Complete Sentences","rendered":"Introduction to Complete Sentences"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: critique passages, revising for run-on sentences and fragments<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-2692 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4975\/2019\/12\/30230415\/water-1761027_1920-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"336\" height=\"179\" \/>\r\n\r\nEffective sentence structure is vital to readability. Readers become confused when sentences are incomplete, choppy, or convoluted. Writers need to pay attention to how sentence construction affects both their message and their audience.\r\n\r\nThis section will help you better understand how to recognize and avoid two common sentence construction errors: fragments and run-on sentences. When you construct clearer sentences, you are able to better connect with your intended audience.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: critique passages, revising for run-on sentences and fragments<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2692 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4975\/2019\/12\/30230415\/water-1761027_1920-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"336\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Effective sentence structure is vital to readability. Readers become confused when sentences are incomplete, choppy, or convoluted. Writers need to pay attention to how sentence construction affects both their message and their audience.<\/p>\n<p>This section will help you better understand how to recognize and avoid two common sentence construction errors: fragments and run-on sentences. When you construct clearer sentences, you are able to better connect with your intended audience.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-70\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Outcome: Fragments and Run-ons. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: University of Mississippi. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Image of water drop. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Erik Socha. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Pixabay. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/water-drop-liquid-splash-wet-1761027\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/water-drop-liquid-splash-wet-1761027\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>Other<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/terms\/#license<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":16,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Outcome: Fragments and Run-ons\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"University of Mississippi\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Image of water drop\",\"author\":\"Erik Socha\",\"organization\":\"Pixabay\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/water-drop-liquid-splash-wet-1761027\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"other\",\"license_terms\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/terms\/#license\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"b0739d66-79de-4424-8ddf-5a87f1b4d1f3","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-70","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":57,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/70\/revisions\/6483"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/57"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/70\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}