Complete and Fragment Sentence

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      Complete and Fragment Sentence

      Complete Sentence

      A complete sentence is a group of words that begins with a capital letter and ends with a period or question mark or exclamation mark at the end. A complete sentence has the following components:

      ·         Subject

      ·         Verb

      ·         A complete thought

      Some sentences can be very short but expresses a complete thought.

      For example: Birds fly.

      This sentence has a subject (Birds) and a verb (fly), and it expresses a complete thought.



      Fragment sentence

      Like complete sentence, a fragment sentence is also a group of words that begins with a capital letter and ends with or question mark or exclamation mark at the end.

      A fragment sentence is incomplete because they lack either

      - a subject

      For example: Playing in the ground.

      Here ‘who’ or ‘what’ performed the action is not clear i.e. subject in this sentence is missing.


      -a verb

      For example: My son.

      Here verb i.e. action performed, is performing or to be performed by the subject is missing. My son did what?



      -both subject and verb

      For example: On the cupboard.

      Here ‘who’ or ‘whom’ i.e. subject is missing and action i.e. verb of the sentence is also missing.


      - don’t express a complete thought

      For example: If you want to go to the trip.

      This above sentence has a subject (You) and verb (go) but does not give complete idea. What he should do, if he wants to go to the trip is missing.


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