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Practice Sentence Fragments

 

The following groups of sentences contain fragments. Rewrite each group to correct the fragments:

  1. I have many CDs. For example, Indigo Girls, Jonatha Brooke, Dar Williams, and Ani DiFranco, as well as Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlin.
  2. Silas goes to camp every year. In the summer. He likes to camp and hike.
  3. Matt watches soap operas on TV. All day long. He watches the entire ABC lineup.
  4. Our class is reading a really good book. Only 245 pages. We should be finished next week.

Grammarland

 

Clauses

Apostrophes & Possessives

Sentence Fragments

Dangling Modifiers

Coordination & Subordination

Commas, Dashes, & Parentheses

Parallelism

Subject/Verb Agreement

Semicolons

Comma Splices and Fused Sentences