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Understanding Sentence Fragments: The Role of Verb Completeness

Sentence fragments often attempt to convey complete thoughts but fail due to missing components, typically verbs or parts of verb strings. For example, the fragment "John working extra hard on his hook shot lately" lacks an auxiliary verb, making it incomplete. Similarly, "Spending hours every day after school and even on weekends" misses a subject-verb relationship, with "spending" only acting as a participle. Recognizing and correcting these fragments is essential for effective communication.

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Understanding Sentence Fragments: The Role of Verb Completeness

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  1. Introduction A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just can’t make it. It’s missing something. Often, it’s missing a verb or part of a verb string: John working extra hard on his hook shot lately. Here, for instance, we’re missing an auxiliary — has been, in this case, probably — that would complete the verb string and the sentence.

  2. Incomplete Verb, Part Two A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence, but it just can’t make it. It’s missing something. Often, it’s missing a verb or part of a verb string: Spending hours every day after school and even on weekends. This time we’re missing a whole verb. “Spending” is a participle wanting to modify something, but there is no subject-verb relationship within the sentence.

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