PPT-FRAGMENTS Fragments result if you punctuate certain word groups as if they are complete

You are missing the subject or verb or both A Maria wasnt watching her plate of barbecue very carefully B So Santana the family beagle snatched a chicken leg hanging over the edge C As baked beans and potato salad slid onto . Angela Gulick. CAS Writing Specialist. June . 2015. What Is a Sentence Fragment?. Just as the word “fragment” means a piece or segment of something in our everyday language, a sentence fragment is a piece or segment of a sentence. . Sentence Fragments. Fragments. are incomplete . sentences. . . Usually. , . fragments. are pieces of . sentences. that have become disconnected from the main clause. .. . One of the easiest ways to correct them is to remove the period between the . Review: What makes a complete sentence?. Subject. What is the subject in each sentence?. Our teacher always buys some sanity on the way home.. The white mark around the black cat. ’. s neck seemed to form into a noose.. UWC Writing Workshop. Spring 2014. Let’s see what’s out there…. Basics of Sentence Structure. Comma Splices. Sentence Fragments. Verbs . Use Interesting Verbs. Use Verbs You Know. Don’t Use Passive Voice. December 16. th. and 19. th. . Complete Sentence. Must have a subject and a verb.. Is the sentence below complete?. The dog chewed up his bed.. YES!. Subject. Predicate. Find the Subject and Predicate. By: Ashlyn Lear . What is a fragment?. A word group that pretends to be a sentence. . Are easy to recognize . A sentence that does not have a subject. . Examples of Fragments. When the cat leaped onto the table.. A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.. Sentences are grouped or classified according to their . content and purpose. .. Types of Sentences. State facts or ideas and usually end with a period.. (Sentences) . TAPCo - 2016-2017. Starting with “the why”. Many of our students. :. Lack organizational skills. Are unable to empathize (see another perspective). Have trouble discerning important info from details. A note on Sentence structure. Comma Splices, Run-ons, and Fragments are errors in sentence structure, either in failing to create an independent clause or in failing to correctly join two independent clauses together.. Note: A fragment fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself. . 1) Since 1600, telescopes have used lenses or mirrors to gather and focus light?. 2) Going outside the earth’s atmosphere to see more clearly.. Vocabulary. Write the following vocabulary words in your composition notebooks.. Narrative. : a story (can be fiction or non-fiction). Ex: . The Hunger Games. , . The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.. simple, compound, . comples. Simple Sentences. It expresses a single complete thought that can stand on its own. . A . simple sentence contains a subject and a verb. .. EXAMPLES. . . The baby cried for food. Inserting Words. Inserting Groups of Words . Combining Subjects & Verbs. Combining Complete Sentences. Combining Sentences. Inserting Words. Pull a key word from one sentence and insert it into the other sentence. Add the key word and drop the rest of the 2. Fragment Rule. A fragment occurs whenever you do these three things: . You begin a group of words with a capital letter. . You conclude this group of words with an end mark—either a period [ . ], question mark [ ? ], or exclamation point [ ! ]. .