![]() The fetid, tepid, vapid little water holes slowly evaporating under a scum of grease, full of cannibal beetles, spotted toads, horsehair worms, liver flukes, and down at the bottom, inevitably, the pale cadaver of a ten-inch centipede. "Anyway-why go into the desert? Really, why do it? That sun, roaring at you all day long.(Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes, 1926) A solitary old woman picking fruit in a darkening orchard, rubbing her rough fingertips over the smooth-skinned plums, a lean wiry old woman, standing with upstretched arms among her fruit trees as though she were a tree herself, growing out of the long grass, with arms stretched up like branches." Perhaps the greengrocer's mother lived in the country. She thought of the woman who had filled those jars and fastened on the bladders. "Laura looked at the bottled fruits, the sliced pears in syrup, the glistening red plums, the greengages.(Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. A boyfriend who lifts heavy things for a living. Not just a boyfriend, but a good man, too. "But she looked like she had a boyfriend.Correction: Mary, my favorite person, is visiting this weekend.ĭefine sentence fragment: the definition of sentence fragment is a sentence that lack some essential component.Correction: I like that dog-the one with the wagging tail.Appositives can rename subjects but they are not subjects themselves.Īppositives do not contain verbs, either, and therefore cannot stand alone as complete thoughts. ![]() What are appositives? An appositive is a noun that renames or re-identifies another noun. Correction: Grandfather built a sandcastle for her.Correction: He makes a good impression.What are verb phrases? A verb phrase contains the verb and any direct or indirect object.Ī verb phrase might look like it can stand-alone however, a verb phrase lacks a subject to make an independent clause. Correction: To respond to your mother in a rude tone is disrespectful.To respond to your mother in a rude tone.Correction: I was preparing to cook dinner.However, infinitive phrases alone are not complete sentences because they lack the elements to make an independent clause. Infinitive phrases act as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. What are infinitive phrases? An infinitive phrase starts with an infinitive and ends with other words. Correction: I was so annoyed with my brother, eating the entire bowl of ice cream.Correction: Lost in the woods, the dog could not find its owner.Participle phrases need to modify a noun, and they need to be a part of an independent clause. All other writers should avoid sentence fragments in their writing. Only very, very experienced writers may use fragments for stylistic purposes. Why are sentence fragments bad? Sentence fragments should be avoided at all costs. This fragment has a noun, “we,” and a verb, “leave,” but it isn’t a complete sentence. ![]()
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