Reading & WritingChapter 9: Boundaries
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Official mapping?
💡Start with the sentence map.
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Standard English Conventions → Boundaries.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Core rule?
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A complete sentence contains an independent clause; punctuation must not strand a dependent clause or phrase as a fragment.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Sentence map?
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complete IC / DC + IC
Examplecomplete IC / DC + IC
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: First move?
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Ignore punctuation choices and identify the grammatical units around the blank.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Independent-clause test?
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Find a subject, finite verb, and complete proposition that can stand as a sentence.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Dependent-clause warning?
💡Start with the sentence map.
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A subject and verb do not guarantee independence; dependency markers and clause function matter.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Period test?
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Both resulting pieces must be conventionally complete sentences.
Examplecomplete IC / DC + IC
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Semicolon test?
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For ordinary clause joining, both sides must be independent clauses.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Colon test?
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The material before the colon must be complete and the following material must elaborate on it.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Comma test?
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Name the comma's structural job; do not use it merely because you hear a pause.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Supplement test?
💡Start with the sentence map.
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Remove the interruption, verify the core, and restore complete matching boundaries.
Examplecomplete IC / DC + IC
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: No-punctuation test?
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Check whether a mark would split subject–verb, verb–object, a restrictive unit, or a compound predicate.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Topic strategy?
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After each proposed period, test whether both resulting pieces can stand as sentences.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Common trap?
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Judging completeness by length instead of clause structure.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Full-option substitution?
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Insert each complete option into the text and evaluate the resulting sentence—not the symbol alone.
Examplecomplete IC / DC + IC
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Unique-answer check?
💡Start with the sentence map.
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Reject an item interpretation if another offered option would also be conventionally acceptable.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Chapter 8 boundary?
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Chapter 8 chooses a logical transition; Chapter 9 punctuates sentence structure.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Chapter 10 boundary?
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Verb, pronoun, modifier, and parallel-form choices belong to Form, Structure, and Sense, not this chapter.
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Error diagnosis?
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When complete IC / DC + IC is the map, explain which unit each wrong mark would incorrectly split or join.
Examplecomplete IC / DC + IC
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9-2 Complete Sentences and Fragments: Final self-check?
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Map units, apply the convention, substitute all options, and confirm exactly one defensible answer.
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