Question

Q1

Which of the following correctly uses a semicolon?

Dinner; is the most important part of my day.
After a good dinner; I like to have something sweet.
My favorite thing to eat; is dessert.
I like ice cream; it is delicious

Q2
Which of the following is an example of a run-on sentence?

Baseball is an amazing sport to play and to watch.
Nothing beats the thrill of the sport on the diamond.
I hope you like watching baseball, I really love it.
If you don’t watch it, you don’t know what you’re missing.


Q3
A sentence fragment

expresses a complete thought
fails to express a complete thought
connects two complete thoughts together
puts two incomplete thoughts together

Answer 1

Q1: I like ice cream; it is delicious.
Q2: I hope you like watching baseball, I really love it.
Q3: Fails to express a complete thought.

A semicolon is used to join two independent clauses that are linked, share the same ideas, or at least closely related in thought. Among the choices given, only the last choice has 2 independent clauses.

In the sentence, "I hope you like watching baseball, I really love it." Using a period where the comma is or a semi-colon would have been better. These two independent clauses were connected improperly, which makes it a run-on sentence.

A sentence fragment is a group of words that fail to complete a sentence because it does not have a complete thought. It is mainly just a "fragment" of a sentence and so it cannot stand on its own.