In the last twenty years, the number of families with adult children living at home.
Sentence groups of words that express complete thoughts or ideas..Fragment do not express complete ideas..
The absence of punctuation does not in itself cause a string of words to be defined as a fragment, nor does the presence of punctuation cause a string of words to be defined as a sentence. A sentence without a full stop is not a fragment; it is a sentence without a full stop. A phrase followed by a full stop is not a sentence; it is a fragment.
No, sentence fragments and phrases are not the same. A phrase is a group of related words that does not contain a subject and a verb, while a sentence fragment is a group of words that appears to be a sentence but is missing a subject, a verb, or both. In other words, a phrase is a fragment whereas a sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence.
A group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence
This group of words is a sentence.
"you are a nice person" is a fragment. you can say "I am thinking you are a nice person." which makes a sentence. VOILA.
This is called a "sentence fragment" or an "incomplete sentence."
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 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 phrase or clause written as a sentence but lacking an element, as a subject or verb, that would enable it to function as an independent sentence in normative written English.
Do you work? is a complete sentence; it is not a sentence fragment.
"She wave." is fragment but "She waves" is a sentence.