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Sentence Fragment
I studied hard for two hours without stopping. Sentence/ Non sentence
John waited.
Willy brought his umbrella and dreaming of his nice warm bed, John for the bus all
morning in the rain last Tuesday because his car in the shop.
1: a subject
2: a verb or predicate
3: a complete thought
a)Incomplete verbs
A Dependent clause has a subject and a verb, but it does not express a
complete thought.
What makes the thought incomplete is the first word, called subordinate
conjunction, of the sentence.
A dependant clause all by itself is a sentence fragment. To correct it :
Make one of the sentences dependent on the other for a complete thought (make
one a dependent clause)