Language e-Link Two:
Finding Fragments

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Lesson Tips:

A subject names who or what the sentence is about.

A predicate shows action or tells about the subject.

A sentence has a subject and predicate and completes a thought.

A sentence fragment may be only a subject or a predicate.

A fragment does not express a complete thought.


Directions: Study the examples below to learn about fragments and sentences.


1. The Women's Royal Naval Service The word group to the left is not a complete sentence. It could act as a subject of a sentence, but it does not form a complete thought

2. Operated the first British naval computers. The word group to the left is not a complete sentence. It could act as a predicate of a sentence, but it does not form a complete thought.


However, if we put a subject and predicate together and those two parts form a complete thought, then we have a complete sentence.


The Women's Royal Naval Service operated the first British naval computers.



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