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Fragments By: Diamond, Juan , and Conny

Fragments By: Diamond, Juan , and Conny. What Is A Fragment???. A fragment fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself, usually missing the subject or verb. Example : I slept. Jim flew the plane. He cried. Fragment Rule!!.

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Fragments By: Diamond, Juan , and Conny

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  1. Fragments By: Diamond, Juan, and Conny

  2. What Is A Fragment??? A fragment fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself, usually missing the subject or verb. • Example: I slept. Jim flew the plane. He cried.

  3. Fragment Rule!! • When you analyze a group of words looking for the Independent clause, you have to find three things: a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. If one of these three items is missing, a fragment results. • Must contain: 1 subject the person, place, or thing performing or doing the action 2 verb the action 3 complete idea the reader isn't left waiting for another word

  4. How To Tell If It’s A Fragment • Sometimes the sentence has a subject, verb, and direct object, but it is still a sentence fragment. How? If a sentence contains one of any of the words below, the sentence requires a second part to finish the idea. Therefore, if you use any of the words on these lists, you MUST add another part. • Example: after, even if, once, whenever ,although, even though, only if or whereas • Example: Prepositions- about, beneath, in, till, above, beside, into, or to

  5. Fragment Examples! Oh NO!! Was running late that day. What is this sentence missing? A. Verb B. Subject C. Predicate The answer is B a subject. The corrected sentence would look like this: I was running late that day. By adding a subject to the fragment, it is now a sentence.

  6. More Examples! • The dog with the brown and black fur. • What is this sentence missing? • A. Predicate • B. Subject • C. Verb • The answer is C a verb. The correction would look like this: • The dog with the brown and black fur barked at me.

  7. Work Cited • "Sentence Fragments - Butte College." Butte - Glenn Community College District. Web. 03 Nov. 2011. <http://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/gram mar/fragments.html>. • "Sentence Structure: Fragments." Reading/Writing Center. Web. 03 Nov. 2011. <http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading- writing/on-line/fragment.html>.

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