Complete and Fragment Sentence

What is meant by a Complete Sentence ?

1) A complete sentence is a group of words that begins with a capital letter and ends with a period or question mark or exclamation mark at the end. A complete sentence has the following components:

• Subject
• Verb
• A complete thought
  

2) Some sentences can be very short but expresses a complete thought.

For example: Birds fly.

This sentence has a subject (Birds) and a verb (fly), and it expresses a complete thought.

What is meant by a Fragment Sentence ?

1) Like complete sentence, a fragment sentence is also a group of words that begins with a capital letter and ends with or question mark or exclamation mark at the end.

2) A fragment sentence is incomplete because they lack either

• a subject

For example: Playing in the ground.

Here ‘who’ or ‘what’ performed the action is not clear i.e. subject in this sentence is missing.

• a verb

For example: My friend.

Here verb i.e. action performed, is performing or to be performed by the subject is missing. My friend did what?

• both subject and verb

For example: On the cupboard.

Here ‘who’ or ‘whom’ i.e. subject is missing and action i.e. verb of the sentence is also missing.

•  don’t express a complete thought

For example: If you want to go to the trip.

This above sentence has a subject (You) and verb (go) but does not give complete idea. What he should do, if he wants to go to the trip is missing.

Practice Exercise

Read the following sentences. Circle the kind of sentence it is.

1. . Because he was not well.(Sentence/Fragment)
2. · Who is in the picture?(Sentence/Fragment)
3. · They catch. (Sentence/Fragment)
4. · Never take anything from unknown people. (Sentence/Fragment)
5. · Ravi saw a fox in the forest last year. (Sentence/Fragment)
6. · Tom likes. (Sentence/Fragment)
7. · Rode on a horse. (Sentence/Fragment)
8. · Take this. (Sentence/Fragment)
9. · Over there. (Sentence/Fragment)
10. · May I please go to the park? (Sentence/Fragment)
11. · Ria helped her father water the garden. (Sentence/Fragment)
12. · Playing cricket. (Sentence/Fragment)
13. · He is not. (Sentence/Fragment)
14. · The tallest boy in the class. (Sentence/Fragment)
15. · Long ago, in the forest. (Sentence/Fragment)
16. · I like ice-cream. (Sentence/Fragment)
17. · Sky blue. (Sentence/Fragment)
18. · Swimming in the pool. (Sentence/Fragment)
19. · Run fast. (Sentence/Fragment)
    

Q2) Read the following sentences. Circle the kind of sentence it is.

1. · Do you think Ria will come today. (Sentence/Fragment)
2. · My mom opened my bag to see what homework I got. (Sentence/Fragment)
3. · The rat was inside the box. (Sentence/Fragment)
4. · My brother has not come yet. (Sentence/Fragment)
5. · Took project to my school. (Sentence/Fragment)
6. · I put my pencil box in my bag. (Sentence/Fragment)
7. · She jumped out of excitement. (Sentence/Fragment)
8. · He is doing. (Sentence/Fragment)
9. · He said," I don't want this bag." (Sentence/Fragment)
10. · Had a big red car. (Sentence/Fragment)
11. · I lift up the bag and kept it on the table. (Sentence/Fragment)
12. · My friend Dia, who is very smart. (Sentence/Fragment)
13. · Shouted out of anger. (Sentence/Fragment)
14. · My friend and I saw a big whale. (Sentence/Fragment)
15. · Yesterday when I came back to home. (Sentence/Fragment)
16. · Red carpet. (Sentence/Fragment)
17. · If you want to win. (Sentence/Fragment)
18. · My son studies in grade 4. (Sentence/Fragment)