Name:_________________________________________
Week 5, Day 2
Period:_______________________
Grammar Bell Work: Fragments
Read for Background
A complete sentence will have at least one subject and one verb. Sentences
are considered fragments when they are missing either a subject or a verb.
Consider the following two fragment sentences and their corrected versions:
• No Subject: Went to the store to buy brownie mix.
Added Subject: My dad went to the store to buy brownie mix.
• No Verb: Brownie mix at the store expensive.
Added Verb: Brownie mix at the store was expensive.
In addition to containing a subject and verb, a complete sentence will
express a complete thought. Consider the following two sentences and their
revised versions.
• Incomplete: When he went to the checkout counter to pay for the brownie
mix.
• Complete: When he went to the checkout counter to pay for the brownie
mix, he got distracted by a display of cake mixes.
•
Incomplete: The variety of yummy cake mixes.
•
Complete: The variety of yummy cake mixes convinced him that he’d
rather bake a cake than brownies tonight.
Practice
Circle the fragments below and then explain how to revise the fragment in
your bell work notebook.
1.) Then I attended Merryweather High School. A high school that was a
bad experience.
2.) In the seventh grade every young boy goes out for football. To prove
to himself and his parents that he is a man.
3.) She opened the door and let us into her home. Not realizing at the
time that we would never enter that door in her home again.
4.) Making up his mind quickly. Josh ordered two dozen red roses for his
girlfriend. Hoping she would accept his apology.
5.)
They were all having a good time. Until one of Melinda's oldest and
best friends had a little too much to drink.