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. E.P.Grammarians, David here along with my cousin Beth whoĪlso happens to be a teacher. Water so hard it bends light, drills holes in rock and chokes up your radiator." (Edward Abbey, "Journey Home". Salt, selenium, arsenic, radon and radium in the water in the gravel in your bones. "The hawk sailing by at 200 feet, a squirming snake in its talons.Over the main entrance the words CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY." (Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World", 1932) "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.Making the world seem ever smaller." (ad for Lufthansa) Connections to over 170 European destinations. "Departures from 22 North American gateways.Extraordinary the effect it has on a child.'" (Ian Fleming, "Moonraker", 1955) "Ogre's teeth." Being bullied at school and so on. Yes, I expect that's what the psychologists will say when they get you into the lunatic asylum. Comes from sucking your thumb when you're a child. Curiously enough,' he went on conversationally, 'it may have something to do with your teeth. Megalomaniac hatred and desire for revenge. He looked levelly at the great red face across the desk. White, "Hot Weather." "One Man's Meat", 1942) The cicada of the typewriter, telling the long steaming noons. * * * Asterisks? So soon? * * * It is a hot weather sign, the asterisk.University of South Carolina Press, 1994) (Judith Kitchen, "Culloden," "Only the Dance". Time to drive on, toward Strathpeffer, friends, a phone call from my father. The sky hunkers down, presses, like a lover, against the land. (Tim O'Brien, "LZ Gator, Vietnam." The New York Times Magazine, October 2, 1994) Not a sandbag, not a nail or a scrap of wire.
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