Fix: I stopped at the intersection, wondering where to go next.Fix: I brought my umbrella because it was raining.Fix: She recommended that I join the book club.Fix: The blacksmith discarded the remaining pieces.Fix: Our mission went better than expected.Take a look at these examples to see what I mean: This “error” is called aĪs you might expect, most sentence fragments are confusing because they’re missing information. Predicate, or complement, it’s considered incomplete. ![]() If a sentence is missing a necessary subject, In grammar and linguistics classes, the first thing you learn is that every sentence has an actor (the subject), an action (the predicate), and the acted-upon object (the complement). On the chopping block this week: sentence fragments. ![]() Welcome to my first post in How to Break Grammar Rules in Fiction, my regular segment that explains why grammar rules exist so you can know how to break them like an artist. And Beth out.Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. You gotta have a subject andĪ verb, put 'em together, slap on a period, you've got a sentence. You're building sentences you have to make sure that what you've got is a subject and a predicate. Of the snowstorm, comma, we stayed home from school, period. Of the snowstorm, period, that wouldn't be a sentence. And if it were just we, period, that also wouldn't be a sentence. Home from school, period, that wouldn't be a sentence. So we've got this sentence here, this independent clause, right. Something could happen, but we don't know what that is, so, because of the snowstorm, Have, doesn't really have a subject or a verb. What we call, not even a, I mean it's not even aĭependent clause, right? It, this thing doesn't ![]() Why not? - Well youĭon't tell what happened because of that snowstorm. All right, what aboutīecause of the snowstorm? Is that a sentence, Beth? - Nope. Then you've got the part that finishes the thought, Got a part that names, that's your subject, and Or something performed by that noun our pronoun. Have to have something happen to that noun or pronoun, So you need to have a thing, like a noun, or a pronoun, and then you Order to be a sentence, you need to have both a Right, we're telling about something but we don't know what. To be a sentence either, that's also a fragment. Similarly, if we just had this predicate, and we just said it began ten years ago, oh, that's not enough Here, the whole story, and now we've given it a predicate. All right, so, the whole story began 10 years ago. Would call a predicate, in other words, so we're giving a subject, but we're not telling what Is the whole story missing? - Well we've got a subject but we don't have what we That cannot stand on its own, but nevertheless, incorrectlyĮnds with a period. The way I would put it, is that a fragment is a piece of a sentence So sentence fragments don't tell the whole story. ![]() Or it might include who but doesn't tell what happens. Maybe what happens, but doesn't include who, A sentence fragment is whenĪ student writes a sentence and they think it's a sentence, but it's one that tells So today weĪre going to talk about sentence fragments, andīeth you cover these in classes that you teach. Grammarians, David here along with my cousin Beth whoĪlso happens to be a teacher.
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