ENGLISH 9

What month of the year

has 28 days?

What can you break, even if you

never pick it up or touch it?
Direction: Identify what kind of sentence structure is used in the
sentence.

If the ozone layer collapses, the global community will suffer.

They wanted to go in Japan, but I wanted to see the Eiffel tower in Paris.

It wasn’t me who knocked on your door.

Although I like to go camping , I haven’t had the time to go lately, and I

haven’t found anyone to go with.
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In alphabet
In alphabet

FRAGMENTS
 FRAGMENTS

LEARNING
LEARNING TARGETS
TARGETS

Define sentence fragments

recognize sentence fragments
and convert fragments to
sentences
 Direction: Arrange the following
LETS ARRANGE IT! group of words.

enjoyed, ballet recital, to my surprise, really, the, I

Answer: To my surprise, I really enjoyed the ballet
recital.
would, than, be, I, it, had, thought

Answer: Than I had thought it would be.

FRAGMENTS
 A group of words that express a complete
thought.

1. A subject: (tells you who or what the sentence is about)

2. A verb: (expresses action, tells you what the subject does,
or links the subject to other important words.)
3. A complete thought
You can have more than one
subject and/or more than one
verb in a sentence.
Example: The students are bored.

SUBJECT:
The students
(this tells us WHO is doing the action.)
VERB:
Are bored
(this is what the students are doing)

This is a complete thought.

 an incomplete sentence!

What are fragments missing?

1. A subject:
2. A verb:
3. Can have a subject and verb but
doesn’t express a complete
thought.
Example: She have gone to the movies
Missing: a subject

Example: The amazed family.

Missing: a verb

Example: She enjoys!.

Missing: It has a subject and a verb, but
it doesn’t express a complete thought.
COMMON TYPES OF FRAGMENT

1. Dependent Clause Fragment

This happens when using a dependent word in
the beginning of a sentence
COMMON TYPES OF FRAGMENT

Example: After Diane saw the accident.

To fix this, either remove the dependent word (after)
New sentence: Diane saw the accident.

Or by completed the thought.

New sentence: After Diane saw the accident she fainted.
COMMON TYPES OF FRAGMENT

2. Forgetting the Subject

These fragments have a verb, but they are
missing the subject.

Example: Finished all her homework.

To fix this, we just need to add a subject.
New sentence: Diane finished all her homework.
COMMON TYPES OF FRAGMENT

3. –ING Fragments
When we use a word ending in –ing at the beginning of
a sentence it sometimes become a fragment

Example: Hoping to finish on time.

To fix this, we just need to add a subject and linking verb
New sentence: Diane was hoping to finish on time.
COMMON TYPES OF FRAGMENT

4. To Fragments
This is when a word group begins with the word “to”

Example: To the park.

To fix this, we need to add a subject and a verb
New sentence: Diane took her dog to the park.
COMMON TYPES OF FRAGMENT

5. Example Fragments
This is when using the words like: including, such as,
and for example in the beginning of a word group

Example: Such as carbonara

To fix this, we need to add a subject and complete the thought,
New sentence: Diane likes to cook her favorite foods, such
as carbonara, when she is at home.
Direction: Convert the following
fragments to sentence.