No. A fragment does not express a complete thought, and could be a very long phrase or clause:
"Jumping merrily from tree to tree as they went" is a fragment (object without predicate).
A complete sentence might be only one or two words: "Wait." "He jumped." "Where's Waldo?"
A 'piece of a sentence' is an incomplete sentence if it doesn't have a subject and verb.
Yes, a sentence fragment is one type of incomplete sentence.
a clause which cannot represent a complete thought by its self is called what type of clause?
a sentence that does not express a complete thought
What Does not express a complete thought
the fingers of the pearl diver
No, it is a fragment.
phrase
The fingers of the pearl dive
A complete sentence is a group of words that contain a person, place or thing doing something, and work together to express a complete thought.
Yes, a sentence has to have at least one independent clause, expressing a complete thought w/o depending on another. This means that a sentence could be made up of only one independent clause. Perhaps it does not express the complete thought you wanted to portray when you were righting the sentence, though, which is why you would then either write a new sentence or add a dependent clause, one that only makes sense with the independent clause.
No. It is a prepositional phrase It does not have a subject or verb and does not express a complete thought. And example of a sentence with this phrase is: "The tree fell during a thunderstorm."
A sentence fragment is a group of words that do not express a complete idea due to the omission of a subject or verb (or both).Examples:The catrunning away from the strangerCold water
A group of words with a subject and verb that do not express a complete thought is known as a phrase. A sentence that includes a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone because it begins with a subordinate word is known as a dependent clause.
Sentence fragment - an incomplete sentence that is punctuated as though it were complete.A sentence is a group of words that express a complete thought.It has two basic parts:* a subject (names who or what the sentence is about) * and a predicate (says something about the subject)
The purpose of a sentence is to express a complete thought. To be a complete thought, a sentence must contain a subject and a verb. (A verb is an action word, aka predicate.)
A subordinate clause is a clause that can not stand alone as a complete sentence, because it does not express a complete thought
A term often used to mean a sentence that does not express a complete thought is either:an incomplete thought (or)a sentence fragmentExamples of sentence fragments:When she came into (...)After the woman finished shopping (...)At the time, she (...)My whole heart.Whenever he (...).The winds (...).She was (...).I wanted (...).He looked (...).Walking.Fragments are missing Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, or any 1 or more of these.He went (where?).She was (what?).
A sentence or an independent clause is a group of words that has a subject, a verb, and forms a complete thought.
To express a complete thought mean to write a sentence that contain a subject (She), a verb (arrived), and a predicate (to school late every Tuesday). She arrived to school late every Tuesday.
A sentence fragment is a group of words that is punctuated like a sentence but is incomplete because it lacks a subject, a verb, or both. It does not express a complete thought and does not form a complete sentence.
A sentence expresses a complete thought, it has a subject and a verb and sometimes it has an object; while a phrase does not express a complete thought and a clause doesnt begin with a capital letter and ends with a mark...a sentence always does.
An Independent clause is independent or main clause expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself as a sentence. An Subordinate clause is a subordinate (or dependent) clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand by itself as a complete sentence.
A complete sentence is a group of words that contain a person, place or thing doing something, and work together to express a complete thought.
Yes, a sentence has to have at least one independent clause, expressing a complete thought w/o depending on another. This means that a sentence could be made up of only one independent clause. Perhaps it does not express the complete thought you wanted to portray when you were righting the sentence, though, which is why you would then either write a new sentence or add a dependent clause, one that only makes sense with the independent clause.
A sentence is defined as a group of words that express a complete thought and that can stand alone. A dependent clause, whether or not it has a subject, does not express a complete thought because it is dependent on the independent clause to help it stand. And a clause has to have a subject, and a verb, or else it is defined as a phrase.