Sedricck: Good Afternoon Class

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SEDRICK: Good Afternoon class! Today I will be teaching you how to avoid and revise sentence fragments. Is that understood?
CLASS: Yes sir.
SEDRICK: Wonderful! The first rule in avoiding sentence fragments is making sure the sentence follows these three components: the sentence has a subject, a verb, and must have at least one clause that does not begin with a coordinating conjunction, unless it is a question. For example, “traveling to Iowa for their pizza” is a sentence fragment. This is because the sentence did not have a subject and lacked a helping verb, which caused traveling to be a verbal. The correct way of rewriting this sentence is by saying something to the effect of, “He is traveling to Iowa for their pizza”. Do you understand?
CLASS: Yes sir. …show more content…

To revise a phrase fragment, you will either attach the phrase to an independent clause or make it a separate sentence. A correct way of attaching the phrase to an independent clause would be, “The board meeting is serving breakfast in the hallway, along with desert.” An incorrect way would be placing a period after hallway instead of the comma. A correct way of making the phrase into a separate sentence is by adding a subject, verb, or both. For example, you can turn “Jerry trained relentlessly for weeks at the gym. To compete at the strongest man competition.” to “Jerry trained relentlessly for weeks at the gym. He wanted to compete at the strongest man competition.” Do I need to repeat myself?
CLASS: No sir.
SEDRICK: Excellent, we are almost finished everyone. The next rule is revising compound-predicate fragments. Compound-predicate fragments usually being with or, and, or but. An example of this would be, “I bought pizza. But forgot the drank”. The correct way of saying this would be, “I bought pizza but forgot the drank”. Does anyone need a another example
CLASS: No

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