英语专题讲解-fragments.ppt

Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second Level,Third Level,Fourth Level,Fifth Level,*,Capital Community College,Introduction,A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence,but it just cant make it.Its missing something.,Often,its missing a verb or part of a verb string:,John working extra hard on his hook shot lately.,Here,for instance,were missing an auxiliary,has been,in this case,probably that would complete the verb string and the sentence.,Incomplete Verb,Part Two,A sentence fragment tries its best to be a sentence,but it just cant make it.Its missing something.,Spending hours every day after school and even on weekends.,This time were missing a whole verb.“Spending”is a participle wanting to modify something,but there is,no subject-verb relationship,within the sentence.,Often,its missing a verb or part of a verb string:,Avoiding Sentence Fragments,Sometimes a sentence fragment can give you a great deal of information,but its still not a complete sentence:,After the coach encouraged him so much last year and he seemed to improve with each passing game.,Here we have a subject-verb relationship in fact,we have two of them but the entire,clause is,subordinated,by the dependent word,after,.We have no independent clause.,Avoiding Sentence Fragments,Be alert for strings of prepositional phrases that never get around to establishing a subject-verb relationship:,Immediately after the founding of the college and during those early years as the predominant educational institution in the American Midwest.,Again,be careful of sentences which give their share of information but still dont contain a subject and verb.,Avoiding Sentence Fragments,If you still have problems identifying sentence fragments and repairing them,it might be helpful to review the material in the,Guide to Grammar and Writing,on,CLAUSES,PHRASES,(and the types of sentences in),SENTENCE VARIETY,Avoiding Sentence Fragments,Now you never again will have trouble with sentence fragments!,CONGRATULATIONS!,This PowerPoint presentation was created by,Charles Darling,PhD,Professor of English and Webmaster,Capital Community College,Hartford,Connecticut,copyright November 1999,