Sentence Basics: What's going on with the sentence?

Quietly, surreptitiously, Dylan tiptoed to the kitchen to steal a loaf of bread.

This phrase renames a noun.

Out of view in the band room, Henry played with silly string.

fragment

Although Ainslie loved the puppy.

Keegan, a superb dancer, is modest.

Logan jumped, cautiously and creatively, over Petar's head.

Ms. Simpson is a math teacher, she teaches in CL168.

These words show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or introduce objects

Mr. Strouse loves his dog he spoils her.

Since Solomon got a new race car.

Oliver's handsome haircut

Brea did not like pickled herring, but she tried it anyway just to be polite.

Generous, delighted, Johannes passed out his recent lottery winnings to all of his friends.

A dependent clause is

Rapidly, Emily took out her magic wand and conjured a box of donuts.

May, famished, desperate, and weary, was hardly aware of eating Zoe's sandwich.

A well-meaning, hardworking student, Jemre didn’t realize the food he dropped in the hallway was attracting ants.

On the side of the road, beside a forest of evergreens, Desmond sat in his broken down Lamborghini.

Ms. M. was a math teacher she teaches English now.

Julia likes to play soccer.

comma splice

Ms. Wiggins loves strong sentences, and the students know how to write them.

Exhausted, Faizi summoned the energy from deep within and did his best moves on the dance floor.

Oliver has a handsome haircut.

fused sentence

These words modify nouns.

These words modify verbs.