RUN-ON A run-on is a continued sentence that doesn't have a pause or punctuation. Example: -My father and I made some hamburgers and we put them on the backyard table father called my mother and sister they were very delighted

SENTENCE A sentence is a group of words containing a subject, predicate, and a punctuation mark. Examples: -My mother always scolds me when I don't clean up my room. -The dog jumped when the lighting struck the house.

FRAGMENT A fragment is a uncomplete sentence that doesn't have a subject, predicate, or punctuation mark. Examples: -The dog was - likes her sandwich -Do you like comic books

How to NOT make fragment sentences. -Sentences have a subject and predicate. Make sure to have these in your sentences. -If you sentence feels like it's missing too much details, it's probably a fragment. Sentences should always have enough details for the reader to know what's going on.

How to NOT make run-on sentences -Make sure the sentence doesn't sound like your cramming the word in your mouth -Remember to double check your work and adding punctuation where necessary.

When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

I'd be 100 percent supportive of a minimum wage - kind of industry specific, maybe regionally specific - for guest workers, so that we're not creating incentives for employers to bring in immigrants to lower the price of labor.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

I grew up pretty fast. I had more responsibility than most 9-year-olds, and I've always been independent.

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life

I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.

Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

There are stereotypes - it's like an invisible line, but somehow you have to find the energy to be strong, to be super-confident, no matter if you are in front of the president of the U.S. or anyone else.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

I think sometimes when trades are made the beginning of the season on paper, they look great. It just takes time. Sometimes the process by the media or outside influences or sources want it to be now. Sometimes it doesn't work that way.

After I finished my master's degree, I moved to a company called Aerospace Corporation, a big think tank for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have met because the first mention of Robin Hood appears 60 years after Richard died.

From home to home and heart to heart from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas brings us closer to each other.

James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown, the one who lies a-mouldering in his grave.

Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has to check it out and see what's there. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but you have to take a look.

More than reading - much more than reading, in fact - I developed a love for telling stories from listening to two parents who really knew how to do it. And it really is an art.

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

I never met such a pretty girl, and I guess I’m just sensitive because real—real beauty makes me want to gag.