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Is there a difference between sentence fragments and dependent clauses?
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A sentence fragment is a an incomplete sentence standing on its own as a complete utterance. They are very common in speech:
"Where did you go yesterday?" "To the movies." "Which one?" "Up." "Good?" "Yeah, really."
All but the first of those is a sentence fragment.
A dependent clause is a part of a larger sentence; it cannot stand on its own because then it would be a fragment. But since it is part of a larger, complete sentence, it is not.
Note that fragments are often less than clauses - they can be single words, or prepositional phrases.
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