Sentence Combining
Three classic problems: a fragment is missing a part, a run-on jams two sentences together, and a comma splice joins them with only a comma. Here we join clauses the right way.
Preview how it deepens, Grades 3 through 8.
Build one yourself.
Pick one chip at each station and snap them together. The Mayor inspects the finished sentence, a quick taste of how the parts combine.
1 · first complete thought
2 · Connie's joiner
3 · second complete thought
A change order drops: make it plural, give it an adverb, swap in a pronoun. Re-tool the sentence and roll it back onto the line.
Play Sentence Surgeon →Slang builds a sentence that follows every rule of grammar and still means nonsense. Catch which rule he really broke, and let the Mayor judge.
Play Garbage Sentences →A comma alone cannot join two complete thoughts.
Two complete thoughts joined by only a comma is a comma splice. The comma is not strong enough on its own.
A comma plus a joining word (one of the FANBOYS) holds the two thoughts together. Connie does the joining.
The characters host. The sentence is the star.
The same concept, deeper every grade.
Sentence Combining runs the length of the Factory, Grades 3 through 8. The lesson meets the standard at each grade, across all four frameworks.