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What is the following group of words?

Because the runner was out of bounds.

sentence
run-on
fragment
comma splice

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fragment

This is a dependent clause; it cannot stand by itself. Either you must add an independent clause before or after it.

Ex.:

Michael scored no points because he was out of bounds.

Because he was out of bounds, Michael scored no points.

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