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can any one please tell me whether the sentences given below are sentence fragments or not and i want the reason. Thanks in Advance.

1. Hard to breathe.

2.It is hard to breathe on extremely high mountains.

3. please take it.

Sam1947 · Accepted Answer

1. sentence fragment A complete sentence would need a subject, e.g., "It is hard to breath," or, "He found it hard to breath."

2. Complete sentence that is correct as written.

3. Please take it. (Or, it could be, "Please, take it.") This is a complete sentence.

Both are imperative sentences giving a command. Although there isn't an obvious subject, there is an implied subject--you. The speaker (and this would not be a written statement except if one were writing dialogue for a play or screenplay, or in a novel) is commanding the listener to take something. Whether or not there would be a comma after please would be dependent on the context of the statement.

Utiahc222 · Answer

Thanks for your reply sam.

I still have a doubt what is the subject and predicate in the first two sentences.It may be very basic question but it is very confussing for me to identify them. can you please explain ?

Englishmaven · Answer

1. fragment
It is hard to breathe.
2. sentence
3. sentence
Capitalize the first word of a sentence.

Englishmaven · Answer

There is no verb in the first one. That's why it is a fragment.
It is the subject of the second sentence.

Sam1947 · Answer

There is no subject in no. 1, and no implied subject, which is why that is a sentence fragment.

2. It is the subject and is is the verb

3. The subject is implied--you. The verb is take.

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