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Late afternoon. The sky hunkers down, presses, like a lover, against the land. Small sounds. A far sheep, faint barking. Time to drive on, toward Strathpeffer, friends, a phone call from my father." - "Culloden," Only the Dance by Judith Kitchen In the second example, the verb is missing. The fragment includes a subject, “the dog,” but doesn’t establish its action or state of being. We are left wondering what happened to the dog under the car. You can break grammar rules for artistic purposes, for example, if you want to create an interesting rhythm or emphasize certain words.

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY." Many dependent clauses start with a coordinating or subordinating conjunction, like "although," "until," or "while." If your sentence starts with one of these phrases, that might be a sign that it needs another sentence to tell a complete story. Third, you need to know that the subordinator (and the whole dependent clause) doesn’t have to be at the beginning of the sentence. The dependent clause and the independent clause can switch places, but the whole clause moves as one big chunk. Look at how these clauses switched places in the sentence: Fragment: Coach Dietz exemplified this behavior by walking off the field in the middle of a game. Leaving her team at a time when we needed her.

Sentence Fragments - Key Takeaways

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, "strengths," the longest word in English with one vowel. In general, it’s important to avoid sentence fragments in formal writing like business correspondence, academic papers , and other documents where grammar is a top priority.

In that example, making the sentence longer was the solution. But that doesn’t mean that short sentences can’t be complete. This teensy sentence is complete:

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Sentence fragments are also used to create emphasis. Using sentence fragments in this way is particularly common with some deliberate repetition of the same idea (a technique called commoratio). For example: A sentence fragment is exactly as it sounds: a “fragment” of a sentence. In other words, it is only part of a sentence, not a complete one. Since it isn’t a complete sentence, it must be reworked to be grammatically correct. See if you can identify which element is missing from each of the following sentence fragment examples. How do you find and fix your fragments? Remember the basics: subject, verb, and complete thought. If you can recognize those things, you’re halfway there. Then, scan your sentences for subordinating conjunctions. If you find one, first identify the whole chunk of the dependent clause (the subject and verb that go with the subordinator), and then make sure they’re attached to an independent clause.