Sentence Fragments

Subject Errors:

Was digging a drain ditch. (incorrect)

Jane was digging a drain ditch. (correct)

Verb Errors:

The debate team practice Monday morning. (incorrect)

The debate team practice was Monday morning. (correct)

Complete Thought Errors:

While Matthew was mowing the grass. (incorrect)

While Matthew was mowing the grass, he missed Chelsea's phone call. (correct)

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Date this page was last edited: 07/15/2004

Resources:

Fawcett, Susan and Alvin Sandberg. Grassroots: The Writer's Workbook Fourth Edition.

     Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.