A COMPLETE SENTENCE:
1. HAS A SUBJECT
2. HAS A VERB
3. MAKES COMPLETE SENSE
4. CAPITAL LETTER AT THE BEGINING
5. AND PUNCTUATION .
AnswerComplete sentences have (at least) a noun and a verb. Teachers often ask for "complete" sentences when you are answering questions. This makes it easier on them, because they don't have to have the question list in front of them to understand your answers. For instance, if the teacher asked "What was Shakespeare's first name, and when was he born?" and your answer was "William, 1564," then you would have an INCOMPLETE sentence. There is no verb in that answer. So, you would have to mimic the question, like this:Shakespeare's first name was William, and he was born in 1564.
Or, you could answer in a complete sentence like this:
William Shakespeare was born in 1564.
Either way, make sure you have a noun and a verb in your sentence. "Bob walked" can be a sentence all by itself... just include who is doing something, and what they are doing.
AnswerA sentence is a related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought. Some authorities add the requirement that the first letter of the sentence must be capitalized and the sentence must end with a full stop (period, question mark, or exclamation point).Anything less than this is not a complete sentence.
A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence. For example these have periods, but are not sentences:I wanted. We were. When I was there. While he was in the store. If you had.
a fragment
becauseits a documentary book
It does not give detail. Why did you sail to Hawaii? When? How? What did you do to get there?
An incomplete grammatical construction is a series of words, phrases, or clauses that do not constitute a complete sentence. A complete sentence has a subject and a verb, and does not contain an introductory adverb, pronoun, or other word that makes it depend on a complete sentence to make sense. Some examples: Complete sentence: John hit me. Incomplete sentence: when John hit me...[This depends on a complete sentence to make sense.] Complete sentence: When John hit me, I hit him back. Complete sentence: Who is good? [The fact that it's a question makes it complete.] Incomplete sentence: who is good [The fact that it's not a question makes it depend on a complete sentence to make sense.] Complete sentence: A boy who is good will not go to the principle's office every so often. Other incomplete sentences: at at the bank feeling confused at the bank who is feeling confused at the bank because I was feeling confused at the bank Complete sentence: I left because I was feeling confused at the bank.
I wrote an incomplete sentence.My essay was incomplete.
This is not an incomplete sentence. The incomplete 1,000 piece puzzle mocked me from the coffee table.
The phrase " the farmers' market" is an incomplete thought and incomplete sentence.
Yes, a semicolon could indeed join an incomplete sentence and a complete sentence.
A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence. For example these have periods, but are not sentences:I wanted. We were. When I was there. While he was in the store. If you had.
Yes, that is incomplete.
It is, but an incomplete fragment sentence.
The student got in trouble because her homework was incomplete.
A formal sentence should include subject, verb and sometimes object. Any sentence that is short for an element of those is called incomplete sentence.
incomplete, or a sentence fragment
This is an incomplete sentence.
A phrase