Sentence Fragments

Sentence Fragments

Grade 4

Complete Sentence Review

• What is a complete sentence?

Multiple Choice

Which one of these is not a part of a complete sentence

• Verb

• Subject

• Adjective

• Object

Open Ended

Make this sentence complete

Mikey ran.

What is a sentence fragment?

• A sentence fragment may look like a sentence but it is not a sentence. A sentence fragment cannot stand on it's own as a complete sentence

• A sentence fragment may:

• Be missing it's subject (Ex. Who ran?)

• Be missing it's verb (Ex. My favorite teacher.)

• Is just a phrase (Ex. For better or worse.)

• Is an abandoned clause (Ex. When my mother married my father)

• Misusing phrases like: such as, for example, or especially (Ex. Such as, my brother was practicing martial arts)

Multiple Choice

Is this a sentence fragment?

John ran.

• Yes

• No

Open Ended

Why is it a sentence fragment?

Multiple Choice

Is this a sentence fragment?

John ran because he was late.

• Yes

• No

Open Ended

Why not?

How can we turn a sentence fragment into a complete sentence

• Attach it to a complete sentence

• If we write "The front door is locked. Use the back door." We can combine these two sentences to get a complete sentence "The front door is locked, use the back door" by adding a comma where the period once was

• Revise it by adding what it is missing

• "Lies around all day." is missing a subject so let's add one, "John lies around all day." John is a noun and is the one who lies around so therefore he is our subject.

Contd.

• Rewrite it

• We can rewrite our sentences in different ways to make them complete

• Instead of writing something like "A book without a cover." Which is a sentence fragment we can write, "The book had no cover." Which is a more complete sentence as it has a subject (book), verb (had), and an object (cover).

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Multiple Choice

How can we fix sentence fragments?

• Rewrite them

• Attach them to a complete sentence

• Revise them by adding what is missing

• All of the above

Open Ended

Fix this sentence fragment.

Because I went to the store.

What's next?

• Next lesson we are going to be covering run-on sentences

• A run-on sentence is when two independent clauses (or complete thought) are connected.

• For the next lesson think about how this is a run-on sentence and come prepared with an answer:

•  I love to write papers I would write one every day if I had the time.