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Grammar for Sleep-Deprived Teens

The document discusses the negative effects of lack of sleep among teens, including suffering physically and emotionally, poorer academic performance, mood issues, and increased accidents. Teens often do not get enough sleep due to screen time late at night, and the consequences of sleep deprivation can be as serious as those of drunk driving in terms of accidents. Ensuring teens get sufficient, quality sleep is important for their health, safety, and success in school.

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Grammar for Sleep-Deprived Teens

The document discusses the negative effects of lack of sleep among teens, including suffering physically and emotionally, poorer academic performance, mood issues, and increased accidents. Teens often do not get enough sleep due to screen time late at night, and the consequences of sleep deprivation can be as serious as those of drunk driving in terms of accidents. Ensuring teens get sufficient, quality sleep is important for their health, safety, and success in school.

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Identifying

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Sentences:

No Sleeping on the Job!

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Directions: Identify the following with a YES or a NO. If there is a problem (sentence
fragment, run-on sentence, or comma splice), make the correction(s) necessary.

_____1. Teens are not getting as much sleep as they need they are suffering.

_____2. Lack of sleep can lead to bad test scores, and bad grades.

_____3. Teens are sleep deprived because of screen time.

_____4. Because he didn’t sleep well the night before.

_____5. Sleep deprivation can cause people to be hostile.


_____6. Are usually in a bad mood.

_____7. Sleep deprivation could cause bad grades, emotional breakdowns, and
more accidents than drunk driving.

_____8. Teens don’t enough sleep.

_____9. Sleep deprivation causes more accidents than drunk driving, and sleep
deprivation can also cause bad grades.

_____10. I woke up grumpy, I didn’t have a good day.


Directions: Identify the following with a YES or a NO. If there is a problem (sentence
fragment, run-on sentence, or comma splice), make the correction(s) necessary.

__NO_1. Teens are not getting as much sleep as they need they are suffering.

This is a run-on sentence. Possible solutions include adding a semicolon


OR adding a comma and a coordinating conjunction between the two
independent clauses.

Teens are not getting as much sleep as they need; they are suffering.

Teens are not getting as much sleep as they need, and they are suffering.

__NO_2. Lack of sleep can lead to bad test scores, and bad grades.

This is also incorrect. Since “bad grades” is not an independent clause,


there should NOT be a comma included. Omit the comma.

Lack of sleep can lead to bad test scores and bad grades.

__YES 3. Teens are sleep deprived because of screen time.

__NO_4. Because he didn’t sleep well the night before.

This is a sentence fragment. It is an incomplete thought. A possible


correction might be to add a comma after “before” and complete the
thought.

Because he didn’t sleep well the night before, he was unable to concentrate.
__YES 5. Sleep deprivation can cause people to be hostile.

___NO 6. Are usually in a bad mood.

This is a sentence fragment. It needs a subject. The following sentence


is a possible solution:

Teens who are sleep deprived are usually in a bad mood.

YES 7. Sleep deprivation could cause bad grades, emotional breakdowns, and
more accidents than drunk driving.

_NO__8. Teens don’t enough sleep.

This is a sentence fragment. The following sentences are possible


corrections.

Teens don’t get enough sleep.

Teens don’t sleep enough.

__YES 9. Sleep deprivation causes more accidents than drunk driving, and sleep
deprivation can also cause bad grades.

___NO 10. I woke up grumpy, I didn’t have a good day.

This is a comma splice. Add a coordinating conjunction or swap the


comma for a semicolon. The following sentences are possible
corrections.

I woke up grumpy, so I didn’t have a good day.

I woke up grumpy; I didn’t have a good day.


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