need help with sentence fragments

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could you help me fix these sentence fragments? i would like to know what i need to add to make them complete sentences, and why are they fragments. 1.[while his mother, patsy, just tries to hold everything together]

2. [to which also causes a problem when all their extra money is used to care for mr baker's disabled

brother, daniel]

3. [when love seemed genuine - something it lacks today]

GPY · Accepted Answer

Before trying to answer your questions, I would like to ask you whether you can see any problems with the following text:

could you help me fix these sentence fragments? i would like to know what i need to add to make them complete sentences, and why are they fragments.

Anonymous · Answer

i don't know.. my grammer?

GPY · Answer

Use of capital letters. All sentences must begin with a capital letter, and the word "I" is always capitalised, wherever it appears. Proper names, like "Patsy", "Mr Baker" and "Daniel" also require capitals. It regularly amazes me at this forum how people can reach a reasonably advanced level of English and still somehow not be aware of these most basic rules.

Anyway, the reason why your fragments are fragments and not sentences is that they do not contain any independent clauses. Additionally, "to which also causes a problem..." is not grammatical regardless of context. There is no unique way to turn them into sentences. You can supply independent clauses, but the content could (grammatically) be anything. For example: "His father drinks heavily, while his mother, Patsy, just tries to hold everything together." Or you could adjust the existing content so that it becomes an independent clause, e.g. by deleting conjunctions, as in "His mother, Patsy, just tries to hold everything together."

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