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What are sample sentences for each of the below choices, one that demonstrates the error and one that corrects the error.

Run-on Sentence
Subject-Verb Agreement
Sentence Fragment

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The Run-on sentence is a sentence that is two separate sentences put together with no punctuation to separate them. For example:

Incorrect- I am going to eat lunch we are going to McDonald's. ...

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