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20.1 The Sentence (Sentence or Fragment?) • Practice 1


Sentence or Fragment? A fragment is a group of words that does not express a complete thought.

Fragments Complete Sentences


Early Sunday afternoon Our weekend guests left early Sunday afternoon.
The beautiful phoenix The beautiful phoenix was a mythical bird.
Rose from its own ashes The phoenix rose from its own ashes.

Fragments as Sentence Parts To turn fragments into sentences, add whatever sentence parts are
needed to express a complete thought. The chart below explains what sentence parts were added to the
fragments in the chart above.

SENTENCE PARTS ADDED


Complete subject and predicate areas were added.
A predicate area was added.
A subject area was added.

Exercise 1 Distinguishing Between Sentences and Fragments. In the blanks below, write S
for each sentence and F for each fragment.
EXAMPLE: throughout the day and into the night. F
1. Without any trouble at all.
2. Played quietly after dinner.
3. Pete plays the piccolo.
4. Beyond our wildest expectations.
5. Yellowstone Park attracts many tourists.
6. People from all parts of the world.
7. The contestant with the most unusual costume.
8. Has traveled widely throughout the United States.
9. The prospector struck oil.
10. Robins fly south for the winter.

Exercise 2 Adding Words to Make Sentences from Fragments. Rewrite five of the fragments
above as complete sentences.
EXAMPLE: Snow fell throughout the day and into the night.
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20.1 The Sentence (Sentence or Fragment?) • Practice 2

Exercise 1 Distinguishing Between Sentences and Fragments. Identify each item as a


sentence or a fragment.
EXAMPLE: Worked for many hours fragment
1. In the woods almost until dawn.
2. A few inches of snow.
3. The grizzly bear needs large territories undisturbed by people.
4. Have been unusually high because of the very heavy rains this season.
5. Herds of thousands of caribou.
6. Haste makes waste.
7. Dived in search of food.
8. Cousteau believes artificial islands could be built off the coast.
9. About a great white shark, one of the largest ones ever caught.
10. Cougars have become increasingly rare.
11. Is the last frontier.
12. There he sat, totally content.
13. In the day in order to hunt at night.
14. Ice-covered Mount McKinley in Alaska attracts many tourists.
15. Wolves, jaguars, and grizzly bears once numerous in North America.

Writing Application Using Fragments to Make Sentences. Combine each of the ten
complete subjects on the left with one of the ten complete predicates on the right to make ten logical
sentences.
EXAMPLE: The umpire at yesterday’s game told me to watch my temper.
The umpire at yesterday’s game told me to watch my temper.
1. His Roman costume took the wrong bus.
2. The children stuck to the stage.
3. The girl with butterflies in her stomach wandered into the tack room.
4. The curious horse can fool people.
5. The boy with the confused expression was tangled in the stage scenery.
6. Lemon jello inside empty eggshells put sugar at the bottom of her sleeping bag.
7. Their cousins coming for dinner was wearing his shirt inside out.
8. The man standing on the corner scored a goal for the opposing team.
9. Her long, pointed putty nose thought the raccoon was a ghost.
10. Her friends at the slumber party spoke to the flag instead of to the class.
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