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Intr oduction 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. © Capital Community College

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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: 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 subject­verb  relationship within the sentence. © Capital Community College

Avoiding S entence Fr agme nts 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 subject­verb relationship —  in fact, we have two of them — but the  entire clause is subordinated by the dependent word after. We have no independent clause. © Capital Community College

Avoiding S entence Fr agme nts Be alert for strings of prepositional phrases that never get  around to establishing a subject­verb 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. © Capital Community College

Avoiding S entence Fr agme nts 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 © Capital Community College

Avoiding S entence Fr agme nts Now you never again will have trouble with sentence fragments!

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