Complete Sentences Worksheets – 105 Sentences and Fragments

All 105 word groups

Sentence or fragment 60

A big box of crayons.
A bowl of hot soup.
After school.
Ate all the cookies.
The baby is asleep.
Because it was cold.
Before lunch.
Behind the barn.
Ben lost his mitten.
The big brown dog.
Birds sing in the morning.
The bus stopped.
The clock stopped.
The cookies are in the jar.
Dad fixed my bike.
The dog ran home.
Down the hill.
Every Saturday morning.
Fish swim.
The frog jumped into the water.
The girl with the red hat.
Horses eat hay.
I can hop on one foot.
I have a red kite.

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Sentence or fragment, continued

If it rains.
In the morning.
It is raining.
Jumped over the log.
The kids played tag at recess.
Leaves fall in autumn.
Mia found a shell.
My best friend Leo.
My cat sleeps a lot.
My little sister.
My sister likes to paint.
Next to the window.
The noisy ducks on the pond.
The old wooden chair.
On the top shelf.
Our teacher read a story.
The owl hooted.
Played in the snow.
The puppy chewed a shoe.
Rain fell all day.
Ran to the bus.
Sang a funny song.
She smiled.
Snow covered the yard.
The store opens at nine.
The sun is hot.
Swam across the pond.
The tall green tree.
Three happy kids.
The train was late.
Under the bed.
Was very tired.
We ate soup for dinner.
We planted a tree.
Went to the park.
When the bell rang.

Sentence, fragment or run-on 45

A basket full of ripe apples.
Across the street from the school.
After the long game ended.
Although the movie was long, nobody fell asleep.
Ava wrote a letter to her cousin.
The baby cried the dog barked.
Because the store was closed.
The bell rang we went inside.
The boy who lives next door.
The cat chased the ball under the couch.
The children built a snowman after lunch.
Even though I was tired.
The farmer fed the pigs, and then he milked the cows.
The game ended our team won.
Hoping for a sunny day.
I finished my book it was funny.
I finished my homework before dinner.
I like cats they are soft.
It started to rain we ran home.
It was cold I wore my coat.
Jumping in the leaves all afternoon.
The kite got stuck in the tall tree.
The last slice of pizza.
Leo was hungry he ate an apple.
The library has a new book about sharks.
The moon was bright, so we could see the path.
My brother and I washed the car on Sunday.
My dog is big he likes to run.
My friend called I was asleep.
My grandpa grows beans in his garden.
Our team practiced every day last week.
The pizza was hot I waited.
The river flooded after the storm.
Running down the hall.
She lost her pencil she borrowed one.
Since we had no milk.
The sun came out the snow melted.
The teacher with the blue glasses.
Under the old bridge by the river.
Until the rain stops.
We could not play outside because it was raining.
We planted seeds they grew fast.
We went to the zoo we saw a lion.
When the bell rang, the class lined up.
While the soup was cooking.

How this list was compiled: Written by hand for this page: 105 word groups, each tagged as a complete sentence (a subject and a verb that make a complete thought), a fragment (a missing subject or verb, or a clause that cannot stand alone) or a run-on (two sentences joined with no punctuation or joining word). Every fragment is printed with a capital and a period, as a sentence would be, so the child has to read it. Definitions checked against the Incomplete sentences and Run-on sentences sections of Wikipedia's Sentence clause structure article, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_clause_structure, read 2026-09-23. No person, brand or character is named. Licence: own work

How it works

Each sheet draws 10 of our 105 word groups. Every one starts with a capital and ends with a period, so the child has to read it: The dog ran home is a sentence, the big brown dog is not.

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Who or what, and what they do

A complete sentence says who or what (the dog) and what it does or is (ran home), and makes sense alone. A fragment is missing one of the two (ran to the bus) or hangs on a word like because, when or if (because it was cold).

Two sets

Set picks one. Sentence or fragment (60, half of each) has short, clear groups. Sentence, fragment or run-on (45) adds two sentences run together with no joining word: I like cats they are soft.

For making complete sentences worksheets, ask the child to turn each fragment on the sheet into a sentence on the back.

Questions and answers

What is a sentence fragment?

A group of words written like a sentence that does not make a complete thought: it has no subject (ran to the bus), no verb (the big brown dog), or it starts with because, when or if and stops.

What is a run-on sentence?

Two sentences joined with no punctuation or joining word: the bell rang we went inside. Fix it with a period (The bell rang. We went inside.) or a comma and a joining word (The bell rang, so we went inside.).

Can these be writing complete sentences worksheets?

The sheet asks the child to circle, not write. The combining sentences page has lines to write on, and its key shows each joined sentence. This page's key prints as the last page unless you untick it under More options.