Complete sentence
A shopper laughs at an angry customer.
He throws a glass of wine in your face.
He ended up turning you away from the party
Do we class these as 'fragments or complete sentences ? Isn't any sentence a fragment when it's removed out of context?
Winners get to climb, losers get to fall.
You can live it, you can breath it, but you can't buy it.
Joining every dot on the map.
(are these phrases?)
Top answer
No, a sentence has an independent clause. It can stand alone as a complete thought. A fragment does not.
- No, a sentence has an independent clause.
- It can stand alone as a complete thought.
- A fragment does not.
- This classification has nothing to do with the context.
- All of your examples are complete sentences, not fragments.
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No, a sentence has an independent clause. It can stand alone as a complete thought. A fragment does not. This classification has nothing to do with the context.
All of your examples are complete sentences, not fragments. A dependent clause has a word like "although", "because", "which", "that", etc, that causes the whole clause to act as an adverb, adjective, or noun requiring other part
0A shopper laughs at an angry customer.
He throws a glass of wine in your face.
He ended up turning you away from the party
Do we class these as 'fragments or complete sentences ? Isn't any sentence a fragment when it's removed out of context? They are complete sentences. Basically, a sentence is a subject and a predicate. A fragment is a
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