Transcript Sentence Fragments - Kentucky Department of Education

SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
A complete sentence must have a subject and a
verb and it must be able to stand alone.
(Independent clause)
 Tom broke the vase.
 This is an independent clause.
 It can be changed to a dependent clause by
adding just one word.
 When Tom broke the vase…
 Even though it still has a subject and a verb, this
clause can no longer stand alone. It is now
waiting for an independent clause to finish the
sentence.
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SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
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An independent clause can be turned into a
dependent clause by adding one of the words in
the box below to the beginning of the clause.
When, where, why, how, if, as, because,
although, while, despite, that, who, what
1ST TYPE OF SENTENCE FRAGMENT
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The first of two kinds of sentence fragments is
just a dependent clause waiting for a second half
that isn’t there.
The bride and groom drove away in their car. As the
children ran behind, shouting and laughing.
A. No Change
B. While the
C. During which the
D. The
2ND TYPE OF SENTENCE FRAGMENT
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You can incorporate the sentence fragment into
the complete sentence coming immediately before
or after the fragment through the use of different
punctuation marks.
Although it will always be associated with
Shakespeare’s famous literary character. The castle at
Elsinore was never home to Hamlet.
A. No Change
B. character, the
C. character; the
D. character. A
WORK CITED
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Martz, Geoff, Kim Magloire, and Theodore Silver.
Cracking the ACT. 2007 ed. New York: Random
House, 2007.