Fragments

By: Ashley, Chris, and Pete

Definiton

:SENTENCE

FRAGMENT is

missing a subject,

verb, or sense of

completion. It

sometimes omits a

helping-verb, begins

with –ing words or

dependent words

(who, which, that,

etc.)

Without A Subject and Verb*A sentence that doesn’t make sense because, it has a verb without a subject or a subject without a verb.

Incorrect: Pete’s sentences. Have no clue.

Correct: Pete’s sentences have no clue.

Incorrect: Today is sunny. And hot.

Correct: Today is sunny and hot.

Without A Subject or Verb*Each sentence must have an independent clause, a group of words that contains a subject and a verb and that can stand alone.

Continued Incorrect: Went to the mall. (without subject) Correct: My cousin and I went to the mall.Incorrect: Few children living in that section of the country. (without verb)Correct: Few children live in that section of the country.

Fragment or Complete Sentence?1. Asia which developed much earlier than the West.

2. More than five thousand years ago, Asia had an advanced civilization.

3. People there who invented writing and created literature.

4. Asia is the most populous continent.

(Winkler and Metherell 372)

Fragment or Complete Sentence?

Works CitedBrandon, Lee. Writing Connections. Boston: Houghton, 2004.Winkler, Anthony, and Jo Ray Mccuen Metherell. Writing Talk. 3rd ed. Upper

Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. Wysocki, Anne Frances, and Dennis Lynch. The DK Handbook. Milwaukee:

Pearson, 2009.