Build Complete Sentences

Answer Key - Grade 3 Writing Worksheet

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1. 1.

   Which is a complete sentence?

   • The firefighters with the long hose.
   • The firefighters rolled the hose onto the truck.
   • Rolled the hose back onto the truck.
   • After the fire was out.
2. 2.

   Which predicate completes this sentence? "The marching band ___."

   • the loudest band in town
   • played loudly during the parade
   • during the loud parade
   • with shiny drums and horns
3. 3.

   "Because the road was icy." Which revision makes a complete sentence?

   • Because the road was icy, the bus drove slowly.
   • Because the road was very icy.
   • The icy road and the slow bus.
   • Because the icy road.
4. 4.

   This is a run-on: "The rain stopped we went outside." Which revision fixes it?

   • The rain. Stopped we went outside.
   • The rain stopped, we went outside.
   • The rain stopped. We went outside.
   • The rain stopped we went. Outside.
5. 5.

   Write two complete sentences about a thunderstorm. Then fix this fragment: "Ran across the yard."

   Sentence 1

   Sentence 2

   Fixed fragment

   two complete original sentences, and the fragment fixed with a subject.