Sentence Fragment

Definition

• A SENTENCE FRAGMENT fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself. It does not contain even one independent clause.

One Kind of Fragment

• It may locate something in time and place with a prepositional phrase or a series of such phrases, but it's still lacking a proper subject-verb relationship within an independent clause:

• In America, during the 60’s but before the Civil Rights Act.

Another Kind of Fragment

• It describes something, but there is no subject-verb relationship:

• Wanting to close the achievement gap by giving poot students free laptops.

Another kind of Fragment

• It may have most of the makings of a sentence but still be missing an important part of a verb string:

• Affluent students having 24/7 access to computers.

Another common fragment

• It may even have a subject-verb relationship, but it has been subordinated to another idea by a dependent word and so cannot stand by itself:

• Even though students had round-the-clock access to computer and were digitally literate.

• In a public school in Kansas, a program that is called “free laptop program”offering 5000 laptops for students for free.

• In a public school in Kansas, a program that is called “free laptop program”offering 5000 laptops for students for free.

• In a public school in Kansas, there is a program that called “free laptop program” which offers 5000 laptops for students for free.

• A gap of accessing computer between affluent students and poor students because every affluent student has his or her own laptop, but poor students cannot afford to buy laptops.

• A gap of accessing computer between affluent students and poor students because every affluent student has his or her own laptop, but a poor student cannot afford to buy laptops.

• There is gap of accessing computer between affluent students and poor students because every affluent student has his or her own laptop, but a poor student cannot afford to buy laptops.