Revised: The singer had the most beautiful voice in the world.Ĩ. Original: The most beautiful voice in the world. Look out for groups of nouns that lack a verb. Gerunds are words that end with -ing and resemble verbs but are actually acting nouns and can’t be the main verb of the sentence.ħ. Revised: Her dream had always been to drive like a professional.Ħ. Infinitives can begin sentences, but they cannot make complete sentences on their own.
infinitives are verbs with the word “to” in front of them (like to sing, to dance, to breathe). Revised: I avoid oversleeping by going to bed early.ĥ. Prepositions begin with prepositional phrases which cannot stand on their own as complete sentences.
Look out for prepositions. Prepositions are words like at, to, toward, in, on, up, near, by, etc. Revised: The hiker wandered lost in the woods.Ĥ. They’re describing attributes of things, not actions. These words (like followed, led, slept, broken) resemble verbs, but are actually acting as adjectives and can’t be the main verb of the sentence. Look out for words that end in -ed,-d,-t, or -n. Revised: The dog that won the contest belongs to my neighbor.ģ. Look out for relative adverbs. Relative adverbs are words like who, which, or that. Revised: After I left the store, I remembered that I also needed milk.Ģ. Look out for subordinating conjunctions. Subordinating conjunctions are words like after, because, although, since, if, though, when, while, unless, or until, which introduce dependent clauses and phrases. These aren’t the only kinds of fragments, but they are common errors, so be aware of them in your own writing.ġ. There are many ways to create a sentence fragment. It has both a subject and a verb that work together to form a complete thought, so it is not a sentence fragment. The sentence is a complete sentence that doesn’t leave the reader guessing. She is the actor at the beginning of the sentence.ģ. The subject of the sentence is the girl sitting on the bench. The girl sitting on the bench is my best friend. If a sentence is missing either a subject or a verb, it is a sentence fragment.ġ. In order to be a complete sentence, a group of words needs to contain a subject and a verb. A sentence fragment leaves readers hanging as they wait for the rest of the idea. If it is missing either a subject or a verb, a sentence is fragmented it is missing an essential element. Comedic Media Usage of Sentence FragmentsĪ sentence fragment is a sentence that’s missing some key piece to complete it grammatically.
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