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What Is a Sentence Fragment?
1 Explain what a sentence fragment is.
A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence. It may be a
dependent clause that cannot stand on its own, or it may lack a
subject, a verb, or both. If you read a fragment by itself, without the
other sentences that surround it, you will usually recognize that it does
not express a complete thought. It is only a part, or fragment, of a
sentence.
Examples of Sentence Fragments
Many animals hibernate in winter. Including woodchucks, ground
squirrels, and frogs.
On Saturday morning, Danielle spent an hour hiking a snowy
trail. With her two border collies, Bandit and Molly.
The italicized word groups are sentence fragments—pieces of
sentences that cannot stand alone.
