Question

My favorite food is spaghetti I like it best with meatballs.

This is best described as a...
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Sentence fragment




Run-on sentence



Grammatically correct sentence

Answer 1

The statement 'My favorite food is spaghetti I like it best with meatballs.' is a run-on sentence because it includes two complete sentences without proper punctuation or conjunctions. It can be corrected with a period, a semicolon, or by adding a coordinating conjunction.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student's statement, 'My favorite food is spaghetti I like it best with meatballs.' is classified as a run-on sentence. This is because it consists of two complete sentences that are not adequately separated by proper punctuation such as a period, a semicolon, or a conjunction.

To correct the run-on, you could write: 'My favorite food is spaghetti. I like it best with meatballs.' or 'My favorite food is spaghetti; I like it best with meatballs.' or include a coordinating conjunction: 'My favorite food is spaghetti, and I like it best with meatballs.'

Answer 2

A run-on sentence.

Step-by-step explanation:

A sentence fragment is a group of words that looks like a sentence, but actually isn't a complete sentence. For example, 'I like cheeseburgers' is an independent clause. Sentence fragments never have independent clauses, but instead are dependent clauses or phrases. So, it would not worked.

A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses (also known as complete sentences) are connected improperly.

A grammatically correct sentence is when a sentence is grammatically correct.

I said this is a run on sentence, because there is no comma or any type of puntuation between spaghetti and I.