What is this group of words? We've tried several times to locate him and we called his friends and drove by his house so we could tell him you are here. run-on fragment a good sentence comma splice

This group of words is a run-on sentence.

Explanation:

If you read the group of words out loud, you will notice there is something missing: punctuation. It sounds as if someone is saying it all in a hurry, without any pause. As a matter of fact, the lack of punctuation is what makes it a run-on sentence. What we have here is a couple of independent clauses joined without any proper punctuation - therefore, a run-on sentence. To correct it, we could use a semicolon, for instance:

We've tried several times to locate him; and we called his friends and drove by his house so we could tell him you are here.

Just to make sure to eliminate the other options:

- A fragment would be missing an essential element, such as the verb or the subject. That is not the case here.

- A comma splice is a type of run-on sentence in which only a comma is used to join the independent clauses. That is also not the case, since the sentence has no commas.

- This sentence is not "a good sentence" since its lack of punctuation makes it incorrect.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.