Which of the following is a sentence fragment? the first tiny purple crocuses bloomed in february. high up in the willow trees in the springtime. covered in snow, the branches reflected the sunlight.

A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A complete sentence has the following components or parts:

A fragment is a group of words that do not express a complete thought. They are incomplete sentences. They may lack either a subject, verb or both.

This is a complete sentence. The subjects are the crocuses and the verb is bloomed. It also expresses a complete thought.

This is a fragment. It does not express a complete thought. It doesn't have a subject nor a verb.  

This is a sentence with the subject branches and verb reflected. There is a clear thought about the actor or subject of the sentence and the action.

Keywords: fragment, sentence, subject, verb, predicate

The correct option is .

Further Explanation:

The sentences which are incomplete and do not have a complete meaning in it are known as fragments. The words which collectively do not form any complete sense but they look like a sentence. Independent clauses are not present in the sentence fragments. Dependent clauses or phrases can be easily pointed in a sentence fragment. A sentence fragment looks like a sentence as it begins with a capital letter and ends with a period. But at the same time, the complete sense is absent in it. A sentence fragment does not have a complete sense in it. A sentence becomes a fragment when either the subject, verb or both are missing.

In the given sentences, the first and the third sentence is complete.

The second sentence is a sentence fragment. The complete sentences carry a complete sense in it while the second sentence does not contain a complete thought. Although it begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, still the meaning isn't clear. There is no independent clause in the sentence. Hence, it is an example of a sentence fragment. The complete meaning of the sentence remains unknown to the readers. The other two sentences carry complete sense in them.

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Answer details:

Grade: Senior School

Subject: English Grammar

Chapter: Sentence Fragment

Keywords:

Sentence fragment, Independent clauses, Dependent clauses, complete sense, subject, capital letter, meaning, verb.

i’m writing a memoir and i’ve been given the great suggestion of placing a ‘sub-narrative’ within some of the chapters – sort of, what was going on with me in the grand scheme of things.

i was wondering how to format this so that it is very obvious we are stepping out the of story.

firstly is a change in font from serif to sans workable? i also use dashes for a scene change. was thinking of using a different scene-changer too.

here’s a (shortened) example:

university – or what’s known as ‘uni’ in australia – were some of the best days of my life. where else do you get to potter around in a great location, have very little responsibility, learn lots of things, do lots of things and walk out four years later with a bonus – a degree!

with my university years i had immersed myself into community of intelligent ambitious people. generally everyone had a confidence about themselves. they knew where they were going in life and weren’t threatened by others.

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next normal paragraph continues here…

(sorry couldn’t show the fonts in this comment field)

too much?