1. Fragments

2. Fragments
Fragment: incomplete sentence

3. Fragment: incomplete sentence
Missing a subject or verb or complete thought
Missing complete thought=dependent clause
Although we went home.
If you like her.
When you want to go.
Other examples
Into the dark forest of the night. (no subject or verb)
Went to the park. (no subject)
The girl sitting behind me in class. (no verb or complete thought)

4. Beware…
Fragment does not equal short
Sentence does not equal long

5. We need sleep.
Sentence

6. Go to bed at 10 o’clock.
Sentence

7. Have to go to bed.
fragment

8. Because we need sleep.
fragment

9. Not enough time or money.
fragment

10. What is the meaning of friendship?
sentence

11. My brother and my mother to Argentina.
fragment

12. Before she packed up her suitcase and left.
fragment

13. While you were out all day long.
fragment

14. Cooking delicious food.
fragment

15. Cook delicious food.
sentence

16. Cooked delicious food.
fragment

17. I cook delicious food.
sentence

18. This school, which is named Sunnydale Academy.
fragment

19. Presidential elections occur every four years in the US.
Sentence

20. When people forget to put new trash bags in the can.
fragment

21. If you want to go.
fragment

22. Two people worked on this project.
sentence

23. Before using this machine.
fragment

24. The song titled “Hope.”
fragment

25. How to eat potatoes?
fragment

26. A doctor in the house?
fragment

27. A doctor or a lawyer in the house?
fragment

28. To see its special effects and great battle scene.
fragment

29. The chances of getting hit by lightning are very small.
sentence

30. Now that you know sentence types.
fragment

31. Even though she knew that I was asleep.
fragment

32. Sitting in the park, I began daydreaming about my future.
sentence