Sentence Fragments

Sentence Fragments

What’s the Problem?

Quick Fix

a. A subject is missing

Add a subject

Fell off my roller skates.

The wheels fell off my roller skates.

b. A verb is missing

Add a verb

Having no wheels skating difficult.

Having no wheels makes skating difficult.

c. A helping verb is missing.

Add a helping verb.

The wheels been missing since this

The wheels have been missing since

morning.

this morning.

d. Both a subject and a verb are

Add a subject and a verb to make an

missing.

independent clause.

On my porch with nothing to do.

I’m sitting on my porch with nothing to do.

e. A subordinate clause is treated

Combine the fragment with an

as if it were a sentence.

independent clause.

Even though my roller skates were

I’m not upset, even though my

new.

roller skates were new. or Remove the conjuction. My roller skates were new.