![]() Even though we've got a conjunction starting the sentence, because it's one of those FANBOYS, we're good to go. But remember, if you start a sentence with a coordinating conjunction, you don't have to hook it up to anything. I know we talked about conjunctions at the beginning of the sentence. Now we turn the fragment into a complete sentence by just identifying what was missing and then adding that in there.įinally, and this may be a tricky one and then we booked our tickets. What about before we leave? Well we've got the conjunction 'before' so we've got what we're doing we leave, but what's going on before we leave? So there's no complete thought here again. What about 'we decided to go again'? We've got a subject with 'we', we has decided so we've got that verb and then it completes the thought by telling us what they've decide to do, to go again. A depressing thought I know, but now it's complete and we've turned this into a complete sentence. We just said what is missing is a complete thought, so let's complete the thought vacation is almost over. This definitely is a fragment, but like I said, it's pretty easy to fix. We've got a subject, we've got a verb, but we don't have a complete thought. Over here we've got the sentence vacation is. Good news is, once you figure out that you've got a fragment, all you need to do is find what's missing and then add it. Any time you lead a sentence with one of those subordinating conjunctions, remember you've got to throw a comma after that clause, and hook it up to an independent clause. It's when you lead with the subordinating conjunction like since or because, and then you don't finish that thought. The first thing I want to draw your attention to, is the number one fragment error I see in writing. The good part about fragments is, you may have seen it a lot, but there's some pretty easy fixes. These are examples of definitely common fragments that you've seen. We've got a subject and a verb here, but because of this word 'because', we don't have a complete thought. Now this is a fragment because, threw is one of those intransitive verbs that requires you to follow up with an object. Or could have both of those, but it doesn't complete a thought.Įssentially it's a group of words that's not a complete sentence for a variety of reasons. What a sentence fragment is, is a group of a words that does not include a subject and it might not include a verb. Now we're talking sentence fragments and I know there's many of you guys out there who have seen that written on a paper when you get it back, Sentence fragment.
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