Fragments - Learning English

Fragments - Learning English

Fragments: Fragments are incomplete sentences that lack a subject or verb. Or, if the sentence does seem to have a subject or verb, the subject and verb appear in a subordinate clause rather than the main, independent clause.

• Swam in the ocean. (no subject)
• Frank in the ocean. (no verb)
• Frank swimming in the ocean. (not an independent clause)
• Correction: Frank swam in the ocean.

Fragments are harder to spot when they are next to real sentences, but they are still fragments.

• Frank went to the beach. Swam in the ocean.
• Correction: Frank went to the beach and swam in the ocean.
• It was the last thing I thought I'd see. Frank in the ocean.
• Correction: The last thing I thought I'd see was Frank in the ocean.
• There are a few things I hate. Frank swimming in the ocean.
• Correction: There are a few things I hate. Frank swimming in the oceanis one of them.

Practice with fragments