Quick Start Guide: Sentence Fragments

Welcome!

Welcome to the Learning Commons Quick Start Guide on how to avoid sentence fragments!

While an easy mistake to make, sentence fragments can harm reading comprehension and make your essay quality fall substantially. This Guide will explain:

• What sentence fragments are
• How to fix sentence fragments

Resources

University of Toronto Handout

Purdue OWL

Grammarly

This video is a primer on what makes for a sentence fragment:

• Sentence fragments do not tell “the whole story”
  • Missing predicates
  • Missing subjects

In this mini-course we explore this in more detail:

1. Independent clauses
2. Dependent clauses
3. Easy fixes
4. Wrap-up