sentence fragments

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Freshman Composition 2

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SENTENCE FRAGMENTS

•A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence. These sentences are incomplete (fragments) because they lack either a subject or a verb or both.

What is a Sentence What is a Sentence Fragment?Fragment?

There are 7 types of Sentence fragments.

a. Subordinate Clause Fragments

b. Infinitive Phrase Fragments

c. Afterthought Fragments

d. Lonely Verb Fragments

e. Appositive Fragments

f. Participle Phrase Fragments

g. Intentional Fragments.

Types of Fragments

This type of sentence fragment contains a subordinate conjunction, a subject and a verb.

E.g. Flooring the accelerator, Juan wove through the heavy traffic. As his ex-girlfriend Joan chased him down the interstate.

Subordinate ClauseFragment

This type of phrase usually begins with an ing or ed word. However, in the case of an irregular verbs, an irregular past participle, like burnt or spoken , will begin the phrase.

E.g. Aunt Olivia always wears a motorcycle helmet. Worrying that a meteor or chunk of space debris will conk her on the head.

Participle Phrase Fragment

An infinitive phrase will begin with an infinitive [to + base verb].

E.g. To explain why he had brought Squeeze, his seven-foot pet python, to Mr. Parker’s English class, Ronald sat in the provost’s office, jiggling his foot nervously.

Infinitive Phrase Fragment

These fragments begin with these transitions: especially, for example, for instance, like, such as, including and except.

These transitions frequently introduce good details that the writer is providing as an afterthought for previous information.

Afterthought Fragments

These are fragments which occur when there is a verb phrase

without a subject.

E.g. After dinner, Mike and Pat leave their dirty dishes on the

back patio. And let the raccoons, opossums, and armadillos

that visit the yard eat the leftovers.

Lonely Verb Fragments

•An appositive is a word or group of words that renames a noun right beside it.

•An appositive does not contain a main clause, it cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.

Appositive Fragments

• This is used to emphasize a point.

• Intentional Fragments are not grammar errors. They can. However, get you into a trouble if you are a beginning writer.

Intentional Fragment

If your lecturers mark your paper for

fragments, a simple and effective

proofreading trick is to read your

composition backwards.

Strategy to Identify Fragments

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