![]() ![]() Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 June 2023 Deep divisions and distrust between officials in Mogadishu and regional leaders, as well as among clans and subclans, threaten to fragment the country. 2023 People can sometimes awake abruptly as a result, and sleep is fragmented. 2023 Influencers Face Unique Challenges And Business Crises The influencer market is highly fragmented by nature. 2023 The Rus’ state had become fragmented, beset by quarrelling among its princes. 2023 The seminal British band has long been on the front lines of preserving what’s left of the rock scene, fragmented by streaming and buoyed by dad-rock nostalgia culture. Verb The activity was more disorganized and fragmented across the brain and did not look like the more in-sync patterns the brain exhibits during normal memory formation. Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023 The small space on the ground floor showed work by a photographer from the northern state of Sonora - endless desert horizons punctuated by fragments of industrial architecture. Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023 In late August, fragments of a Russian missile or drone shot down by Ukraine’s air-defense system landed beside the Babyn Yar synagogue, damaging the wooden walls and a window. 2023 Distributed by Kraft Heinz to grocers including Amazon, Dollar General, Kroger, Publix, Target and Walmart, the chicken may contain fragments of plastic safety glasses, Simmons Foods said in a Dec. 2023 In the section of the dimly lighted and humid tunnel where they had been taken, Yo was the only Thai in a group of five or six others, getting by with fragments of Hebrew and English. 2023 In the days after Thug Shaker Central was brought to Discord’s attention, the company sifted through traces of the server captured only in fragments of metadata, according to company representatives. 2023 In a release, Simmons said the plastic pieces were likely fragments from safety glasses. Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023 Using only images from this fragment, Stigter movingly reclaims a lost world, face by face, second by second. Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. And Beth out.Noun In places like Los Angeles, the fragments of remaining habitat are functionally islands, where species can and do disappear, and are mourned by the people who knew them. ![]() ![]() You gotta have a subject andĪ verb, put 'em together, slap on a period, you've got a sentence. You're building sentences you have to make sure that what you've got is a subject and a predicate. Of the snowstorm, comma, we stayed home from school, period. Of the snowstorm, period, that wouldn't be a sentence. And if it were just we, period, that also wouldn't be a sentence. Home from school, period, that wouldn't be a sentence. So we've got this sentence here, this independent clause, right. Something could happen, but we don't know what that is, so, because of the snowstorm, Have, doesn't really have a subject or a verb. What we call, not even a, I mean it's not even aĭependent clause, right? It, this thing doesn't Why not? - Well youĭon't tell what happened because of that snowstorm. All right, what aboutīecause of the snowstorm? Is that a sentence, Beth? - Nope. Then you've got the part that finishes the thought, Got a part that names, that's your subject, and Or something performed by that noun our pronoun. Have to have something happen to that noun or pronoun, So you need to have a thing, like a noun, or a pronoun, and then you Order to be a sentence, you need to have both a Right, we're telling about something but we don't know what. To be a sentence either, that's also a fragment. Similarly, if we just had this predicate, and we just said it began ten years ago, oh, that's not enough Here, the whole story, and now we've given it a predicate. All right, so, the whole story began 10 years ago. Would call a predicate, in other words, so we're giving a subject, but we're not telling what Is the whole story missing? - Well we've got a subject but we don't have what we That cannot stand on its own, but nevertheless, incorrectlyĮnds with a period. The way I would put it, is that a fragment is a piece of a sentence So sentence fragments don't tell the whole story. Or it might include who but doesn't tell what happens. ![]() Maybe what happens, but doesn't include who, A sentence fragment is whenĪ student writes a sentence and they think it's a sentence, but it's one that tells So today weĪre going to talk about sentence fragments, andīeth you cover these in classes that you teach. Grammarians, David here along with my cousin Beth whoĪlso happens to be a teacher. ![]()
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