Run-on Sentences Worksheets

All About These 15 Worksheets

These worksheets provide exercises and activities that help individuals recognize and rectify run-on sentences. They include passages or sentences that contain run-on sentences, and students will to identify the errors and fix them appropriately.

Here are the different types of activities that you will find:

Identification – Learners are given a sentence or a passage and are asked to identify whether it is a run-on sentence or not.

Example: The sun is shining it’s a beautiful day.

Splitting Sentences – In these exercises, students are provided with a run-on sentence and are asked to split it into separate sentences or join the clauses correctly.

Example: I like to swim I also enjoy playing basketball.

Correction: I like to swim. I also enjoy playing basketball. OR I like to swim, and I also enjoy playing basketball.

Adding Punctuation or Conjunctions – Learners are given run-on sentences and are required to insert appropriate punctuation (such as periods or commas) or conjunctions (such as “and,” “but,” “or,” or “so”) to correct the error.

Example: Maria is going to the park she wants to play on the swings.

Correction: Maria is going to the park, and she wants to play on the swings.

Rewriting – Learners are asked to rewrite a run-on sentence as two separate sentences or as a compound sentence using conjunctions.

Example: He ran fast he missed the bus.

Rewritten as separate sentences: He ran fast. He missed the bus.

Rewritten as a compound sentence: He ran fast, but he missed the bus.

What are Run-on Sentences?

A run-on sentence is like a really long sentence that has too many ideas or parts mixed together without a proper break. It’s like trying to say too much all at once without taking a pause or using the right punctuation.

Let’s say we have this sentence –

“I went to the park I played on the swings with my friends we had a picnic too.”

That’s a run-on sentence because it has too many parts combined without any stops or punctuation.

To fix a run-on sentence, we need to separate the different ideas or parts into separate sentences or use the right punctuation. For example, we can make it into two sentences like this:

“I went to the park. I played on the swings with my friends. We had a picnic too.”

Or we can use a special punctuation called a comma and a word like “and” or “but” to connect the ideas:

“I went to the park, and I played on the swings with my friends. We had a picnic too.”

See, by making separate sentences or using commas and words like “and” or “but,” we can make the ideas clearer and easier to understand.

So, a run-on sentence happens when we try to put too many ideas together without the right pauses or punctuation. We need to separate them properly to make our writing easier to read and understand.