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Fixing Sentence Fragments

  • Grade 6
  • English Language Arts
  • 1 min 17 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC6-EN-25

A four-line passage about a school team contains two sentence fragments: "Because we wanted to win." which is not a complete thought, and "Then a storm on Saturday." which has no verb. A rule box shows that a complete sentence needs a subject, a verb and a complete thought, then the first fragment is joined to the sentence before it and the second gets the verb "hit", before every finished sentence is checked and a one-line recap ends the video.

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The question this lesson answers

What is a sentence fragment, and how do you fix one?

Here is a short passage about a school team.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What is a sentence fragment, and how do you fix one?

Here is a short passage about a school team.

Two of these are sentence fragments, because something is missing.

A complete sentence needs a subject, a verb and a complete thought.

A sentence fragment is missing one of these, but it still ends with a period.

Because we wanted to win leaves us waiting, so it is not a complete thought.

Then a storm on Saturday has no verb, so nothing happens.

One fix is to join the fragment to the sentence next to it.

Now the two pieces make one complete sentence.

The other fix is to add what is missing, and here the storm needs a verb.

Now the storm hit, so something happens and the sentence is complete.

The last sentence was already complete, so it stays the same.

To check a sentence, look for a subject, a verb and a complete thought.

A fragment is missing something, so join it to a sentence or add what is missing.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 6

English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: sentence structure and grammarBC6-EN-25

Previous: Fixing Run-On SentencesNext: Subject-Verb Agreement: Make the Verb Match Its Subject

British Columbia, Grade 7

English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: syntax and sentence fluencyBC7-EN-29

Previous: Fixing Run-On SentencesNext: Subject-Verb Agreement: Make the Verb Match Its Subject

This lesson is also listed in Grade 7.

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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