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sentence fragments

sentence fragments is the plural of sentence fragment.

Meaning of sentence fragment

Noun

sentence fragment (plural sentence fragments)

  1. An incomplete sentence; a phrase or clause that is punctuated and capitalized as a sentence but does not constitute a complete grammatical sentence. (It is often the result of failing to include a subject and a verb, or beginning a sentence with a subordinator or relative pronoun. But not all one-word or two-word sentences are sentence fragments, though.)

Questions about sentence fragments

What is sentence fragments the plural of?
Sentence fragments is the plural of sentence fragment.

Words near sentence fragments in the dictionary

  1. sentence connective
  2. sentence connectives
  3. sentence element
  4. sentence elements
  5. sentence fragment
  6. sentence fragments
  7. sentence mix
  8. sentence mixed
  9. sentence mixes
  10. sentence mixing
  11. sentence-final particle

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