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Fragment Sentences

Fragment Sentences. Presentation by: Alexis Dawson, Michelle Schlicker, and Theodore Lauder. The following Rule and Reasons are from http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/fragments.htm. Rule.

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Fragment Sentences

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  1. Fragment Sentences Presentation by: Alexis Dawson, Michelle Schlicker, and Theodore Lauder

  2. The following Rule and Reasons are from http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/fragments.htm

  3. Rule • “A sentence fragment fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself. It does not contain even one independent clause. There are several reasons why a group of words may seem to act like a sentence but not have the wherewithal to make it as a complete thought.”

  4. Reason #1 • “It may locate something in time and place with a prepositional phrase or a series of such phrases, but it's still lacking a proper subject-verb relationship within an independent clause: In Japan, during the last war and just before the armistice. • This sentence accomplishes a great deal in terms of placing the reader in time and place, but there is no subject, no verb.”

  5. Reason #2 • “It describes something, but there is no subject-verb relationship: Working far into the night in an effort to salvage her little boat. • This is a verbal phrase that wants to modify something, the real subject of the sentence (about to come up), probably the she who was working so hard.”

  6. Reason #3 • “It may have most of the makings of a sentence but still be missing an important part of a verb string: Some of the students working in Professor Espinoza's laboratory last semester. • Remember that an -ing verb form, without an auxiliary form to accompany it, can never be a verb.”

  7. Reason #4 • “It may even have a subject-verb relationship, but it has been subordinated to another idea by a dependent word and so [the clause] cannot stand by itself: Even though he had the better arguments and was by far the more powerful speaker.”

  8. Examples from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/620/1/ • 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. • Corrected version: 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. • Fragment: I need to find a new roommate. Because the one I have now isn't working out too well. • Corrected version: I need to find a new roommate because the one I have now isn't working out too well. • Fragment: The current city policy on housing incomplete as it stands. Which is why we believe the proposed amendments should be passed. • Corrected version: Because the current city policy on housing is incomplete as it stands, we believe the proposed amendments should be passed.

  9. Now, you can try! • Fragment: The students working on their homework. • Fragment: Time was going by too fast. Because we were all dreading the upcoming test.

  10. Work Cited • http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/fragments.htm • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/620/1/ • www.google.com/images

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