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1、 Capital Community CollegeIntroductionA sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just cant make it. Its missing something.Often, its missing a verb or part of a verb string:John working extra hard on his hook shot lately.Here, for instance, were missing an auxiliary has been, in thi
2、s case, probably that would complete the verb string and the sentence. Capital Community CollegeIncomplete Verb, Part TwoA sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just cant make it. Its missing something.Spending hours every day after school and even on weekends.This time were miss
3、ing a whole verb. “Spending” is a participle wanting to modify something, but there is no subject-verb relationship within the sentence.Often, its missing a verb or part of a verb string: Capital Community CollegeAvoiding Sentence FragmentsSometimes a sentence fragment can give you a great deal of i
4、nformation, but its 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 subject-verb relationship in fact, we have two of them but the entire clause is subordinated by the dependent word after. We have no indep
5、endent clause. Capital Community CollegeAvoiding Sentence FragmentsBe alert for strings of prepositional phrases that never get around to establishing a subject-verb relationship:Immediately after the founding of the college and during those early years as the predominant educational institution in
6、the American Midwest.Again, be careful of sentences which give their share of information but still dont contain a subject and verb. Capital Community CollegeAvoiding Sentence FragmentsIf you still have problems identifying sentence fragments and repairing them, it might be helpful to review the mat
7、erial in the Guide to Grammar and Writing onCLAUSESPHRASES(and the types of sentences in)SENTENCE VARIETY Capital Community CollegeAvoiding Sentence FragmentsNow you never again will have trouble with sentence fragments! Capital Community CollegeThis PowerPoint presentation was created by Charles Darling, PhDProfessor of English and WebmasterCapital Community CollegeHartford, Connecticutcopyright November 1999
