Sentence or Fragment?

Sentence or Fragment?

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In English grammar, a sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought and contains a subject and a verb. A fragment is a group of words that does not express a complete thought and may be missing a subject, a verb, or both. In this blog post, we'll look at how to identify sentences and how to fix fragments.

To identify a sentence, ask yourself if the group of words expresses a complete thought and contains a subject and a verb. If the answer is yes, then it is a sentence. Here are some examples of sentences:

"The cat chased the mouse."

"She ate a sandwich for lunch."

"He is going to the store."

To identify a fragment, ask yourself if the group of words expresses a complete thought and contains a subject and a verb. If the answer is no, then it is a fragment. Here are some examples of fragments:

"The cat ." (missing the the verb)

"For lunch." (missing the subject and verb)

"Is going to the store." (missing the subject)

To fix a fragment, you need to add the missing subject, verb, or both to make it a complete sentence. Here are some examples of how to fix fragments:

"The cat chased the mouse." (original sentence)

"The cat chased." (fragment)

"The cat chased the mouse." (fixed fragment)

"She ate a sandwich for lunch." (original sentence)

"For lunch." (fragment)

"She ate a sandwich for lunch." (fixed fragment)

"He is going to the store." (original sentence)

"Is going to the store." (fragment)

"He is going to the store." (fixed fragment)

Identifying Sentences and Sentence Fragments Quiz

Read aloud the following word groups, some of which are sentence fragments. If a word group is a sentence fragment, choose “fragment”. If the word group is already a complete sentence, choose “sentence.”