Title: Default for Exercise 3 - Recognizing Run-Ons and Fragments (Advanced)
Course: Applied English for Science and Technology

Q: Both bombs produce the same three effects: heat, blast, and radiation; however, the bombs do not produce the effects in the same proportions.
- Sentence
- Fragment
- Run-On
A: Sentence
Feedback: No problem.

Q: Both bombs produce the same three effects: heat, blast, and radiation. The first of which usually causes the most fatalities.
- Sentence
- Fragment
- Run-On
A: Fragment
Feedback: Both bombs produce the same three effects: heat, blast, and radiation. The first of these three usually causes the most fatalities. The original second group of words is a fragment. The word "which" makes that second group of words a dependent clause, which by definition cannot stand alone as a sentence.

Q: Heat, blast, and radiation are the bomb's three main effects, the first of which usually causes the most fatalities.
- Sentence
- Fragment
- Run-On
A: Sentence
Feedback: No problem.

Q: Both Mars and Earth are rapidly rotating planets, both have seasonal climate changes, and both have heat exchange of solar radiation between the atmosphere and the surface.
- Sentence
- Fragment
- Run-On
A: Sentence
Feedback: No problem.

Q: The Great Comet of 1811 not only had a large nucleus (between 30 and 40 kilometers), it also had a large coma, extending a length the diameter of the Sun.
- Sentence
- Fragment
- Run-On
A: Run-On
Feedback: The Great Comet of 1811 not only had a large nucleus (between 30 and 40 kilometers), but it also had a large coma, extending a length the diameter of the Sun. The original group of words is technically a run-on, although it is accepted as a sentence in many informal writing situations. To make it an undisputed sentence, you should add the coordinating conjunction "but."

Q: The higher the temperature, the lower the pressure.
- Sentence
- Fragment
- Run-On
A: Fragment
Feedback: The higher the temperature is, the lower the pressure is. This group of words is a technically a fragment that almost everyone lets pass as a sentence. Most people would treat this word grouping as having an understood verb in both the dependent clause and the independent clause (much as a command has the understood subject "you"). Should you feel uncomfortable with treating this word grouping as a sentence, simply add the verbs in the dependent and independent clauses.