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Today I woke up half a century old. I am not ready. Too much yet to do. Too much everyday living. Too much left unsaid, unimagined.

"Late afternoon. The sky hunkers down, presses, like a lover, against the land. Small sounds. A far sheep, faint barking. Time to drive on, toward Strathpeffer, friends, a phone call from my father.

(Judith Kitchen, "Culloden," Only the Dance. Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1994)

"Since the term 'sentence fragment' carries with it a pejorative association, let me use the term 'minor sentence.' A minor sentence is any punctuated sentence which does not contain at least one independent clause."

(James Alatis, Language, Communication, and Social Meaning. Georgetown Univ. Press, 1992)

"Departures from 22 North American gateways. Connections to over 170 European destinations. Making the world seem ever smaller."

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"The sentence fragments used for their stylistic effect are not the kind that teachers mark with a marginal 'frag'; those are usually the result of punctuation errors, often a subordinate clause punctuated as a full sentence. But experienced writers know how to use fragments deliberately and effectively--noun phrases or verb phrases that add a detail without a full sentence and invariably call attention to themselves."

(Martha Kolln, Rhetorical Grammar. Allyn and Bacon, 1999)

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