Sin papeles-he did not carry his birth certificate to work in the fields. He couldn’t speak English, couldn’t tell them he was fifth generation American. They’ll think you’re del otro lao.” In the confusion, Pedro ran, terrified of being caught. ( Want to read more? See the Works Cited section for information about the full texts of each excerpt.) Here are excerpts from which the sample fragments were taken. Despite being grammatically incomplete, each of our three examples is understood when read in the context of the story or article. Let’s reconsider our initial sentence fragments. (By the way, how often or in what situations would you answer such questions in the complete sentence, “I am going to the library”?) We understand it because we understand the context. The answer is a sentence fragment, but we understand the meaning because it’s part of the conversation. Here’s a short dialogue that includes a sentence fragment: In everyday speech, in creative writing, and in informal communications, we use sentence fragments all the time. Can you turn each of them into a complete sentence that has a clear subject and a verb? Go through the list of examples and briefly explain what’s missing or misapplied and why these phrases are sentence fragments. But also feel free to apply what you know about grammar, or how you can tell something may be missing or misapplied. Can you explain what’s missing in each example? Does the phrase have a subject? Does it have a verb, or is the verb not in the right form for the intended meaning or in the expected format?įeel free to review our resources about sentence fragments (see below). Taken out of context, each of the examples is a sentence fragment. We’ll read the full passages later in this lesson, but first, let’s practice what we’ve learned so far.
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