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Sentence Skills, Form A, 7/e
John Langan, Atlantic Cape Community College

Fragments

Key Terms


fragment  a word group that lacks a subject or a verb and/or one that does not express a complete thought. Ex.: Whenever I go to school. ("Whenever," a dependent word, cannot introduce a complete thought, so it cannot stand alone.)