Click on the boxes to choose whether each word group is a sentence or a fragment. being a child of an army officer. mary has lived all over the world.

Being a child of an army officer.

Fragment: in this example, we find a sentence fragment since it the phrase does not have meaning on its own, does not have a verb and predicate. This fragment can be the subject of sentence (participial phrase) but is not considered a full sentence.

Mary has lived all over the world.

Sentence: in this example, we find a full sentence since it has subject, verb and predicate. The subject is “Mary”, the verb is “Has lived” and the predicate is “All over the world”.

Answers:

Being a child of an army officer is a fragment.

Mary has lived all over the world is a sentence.

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