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A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just can’t make it.. Often, it’s missing a verb or part of a verb string: John working extra hard on his hook shot lately.. He

A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it

just can’t make it It’s missing something

Often, it’s missing a verb or part of a verb string:

John working extra hard on his hook shot lately.

Here, for instance, we’re missing an

auxiliary — has been, in this case, probably

— that would complete the verb string and the sentence

Incomplete Verb, Part Two

A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it

just can’t make it It’s missing something

Spending hours every day after school and even on weekends.

This time we’re missing a whole verb

“Spending” is a participle wanting to modify something, but there is no subject-verb

relationship within the sentence

Often, it’s missing a verb or part

of a verb string:

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Fragments

Sometimes a sentence fragment can give you a great deal

of information, but it’s still not a complete sentence:

After the coach encouraged him so much last year and he seemed to improve with each passing game.

Here we have a subject-verb relationship —

in fact, we have two of them — but the entire clause is subordinated by the

dependent word after We have no

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Fragments

Be alert for strings of prepositional phrases that never get

around to establishing a subject-verb relationship:

Immediately after the founding of the college and during those early years as the predominant educational

institution in the American Midwest.

Again, be careful of sentences which give their share of information but still don’t contain a subject and verb.

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Fragments

If you still have problems identifying sentence fragments and repairing them, it might be helpful to review the

material in the Guide to Grammar and Writing on

CLAUSES PHRASES

(and the types of sentences in)

SENTENCE VARIETY

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Fragments

Now you never again will have trouble with sentence fragments!

This PowerPoint presentation was created by Charles Darling, PhD

Professor of English and Webmaster

Capital Community College

Hartford, Connecticut

copyright November 1999