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This fragment can be fixed by combining it with the previous sentence. Now imagine you tell a person, “Whenever I am nervous or bored.” Have you expressed a complete idea? Could that person understand exactly what you are trying to express? No.
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Imagine you walk up to a person you do not know and say, “I eat a lot of chocolate.” Does that make sense? Did you express a complete idea? Yes! That idea is a complete idea and can be understood by itself. If you said that sentence (by itself) to a person you do not know, would that person understand you? Look at the two sentences below. One way to check if your sentence is a fragment is to use the “random person” test. In the example above, there is now a subject (we), verb (played), and a complete idea. Sentence: We played all day at the beach. Now, let’s add a subject and a verb to the fragment: We do not know who was at the beach and we do not know what happened at the beach. In the example above, there is no subject, verb, or complete idea. A sentence fragment is missing a subject, a verb, OR a complete idea. And Beth out.Grammar: Identifying Sentence Fragments Sentence Fragments and Ways to Find and Fix Them Example of a Fragment and How it was Fixed.Ī fragment is a “piece” (or part) of a sentence because it is missing information to make a complete sentence. You gotta have a subject andĪ verb, put 'em together, slap on a period, you've got a sentence. You're building sentences you have to make sure that what you've got is a subject and a predicate. Of the snowstorm, comma, we stayed home from school, period.
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Of the snowstorm, period, that wouldn't be a sentence. And if it were just we, period, that also wouldn't be a sentence. Home from school, period, that wouldn't be a sentence. So we've got this sentence here, this independent clause, right. Something could happen, but we don't know what that is, so, because of the snowstorm, Have, doesn't really have a subject or a verb. What we call, not even a, I mean it's not even aĭependent clause, right? It, this thing doesn't Why not? - Well youĭon't tell what happened because of that snowstorm. All right, what aboutīecause of the snowstorm? Is that a sentence, Beth? - Nope. Then you've got the part that finishes the thought, Got a part that names, that's your subject, and Or something performed by that noun our pronoun.
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Have to have something happen to that noun or pronoun, So you need to have a thing, like a noun, or a pronoun, and then you Order to be a sentence, you need to have both a Right, we're telling about something but we don't know what. To be a sentence either, that's also a fragment. Similarly, if we just had this predicate, and we just said it began ten years ago, oh, that's not enough Here, the whole story, and now we've given it a predicate. All right, so, the whole story began 10 years ago. Would call a predicate, in other words, so we're giving a subject, but we're not telling what Is the whole story missing? - Well we've got a subject but we don't have what we That cannot stand on its own, but nevertheless, incorrectlyĮnds with a period. The way I would put it, is that a fragment is a piece of a sentence So sentence fragments don't tell the whole story. Or it might include who but doesn't tell what happens. Maybe what happens, but doesn't include who, A sentence fragment is whenĪ student writes a sentence and they think it's a sentence, but it's one that tells So today weĪre going to talk about sentence fragments, andīeth you cover these in classes that you teach. Grammarians, David here along with my cousin Beth whoĪlso happens to be a teacher.