Understanding Fragments in English Writing

Understanding sentence fragments

Practicing pronunciation

Learning new vocabulary

Improving reading comprehension

Subject

Verb

Adjective

Complete thought

A phrase expresses a complete thought

A phrase is always a question

A phrase has a subject and a verb

A phrase is a group of words without a complete meaning

ING verb fragment

Explanatory fragment

Prepositional phrase fragment

Dependent clause fragment

They are always questions

They contain a subject and a verb

They express a complete thought

They are missing a key component of a sentence

Add a semicolon

Change the tense

Add the missing subject or verb

Remove all punctuation

By using a period

By using a conjunction

By using a question mark

By using a comma

Combine all fragments into one sentence

Ignore the fragments

Rewrite them as questions

Divide them into two ideas

Use a semicolon

Use a period

Use no punctuation

Use a comma after the dependent clause

Grammar practice is useful, although sometimes I wish we did not have to do so much of it.

Grammar practice is useful although, sometimes I wish we did not have to do so much of it.

Grammar practice is useful; although sometimes I wish we did not have to do so much of it.

Grammar practice is useful although sometimes I wish we did not have to do so much of it.