Sentence fragments
What are sentence fragments?
Sentence fragments are incomplete sentences. They can be phrases or clauses that have
been punctuated as if they were sentences. Sentence fragments can also be called English minors entences. Sometimes it is quite acceptable to use them, but the secret is to know when.
When can you use sentence fragments?
Ans When you write conversations, because you are writing how people speak, and people very
seldom speak in complete sentences.
- What’s going to happen to Boyde, now that Bill is dead?
- Don’t know.
- Do you care?
- Nope. Don’t know and don’t care!
Sometimes when you write stories or personal accounts, you might intentionally use sentence
fragments for special effect:
It stopped, turning its head this way, that way.
Listening.
Listening to the silence.
Listening and waiting.
