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Grammar and Usage for Better Wirting_7

Tham khảo tài liệu 'grammar and usage for better wirting_7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 5. I left a note for the teacher. She never got my note. 6. I will have to wait a long time to buy my ticket. The line of people stretches for blocks. 7. Jeff is on the track team. He finished next to last in the first round of pole vault. 8. Don t forget to volunteer your time. The animal shelter needs a lot of help this time of year. 9. The lawyer rose slowly. The jury looked at him with expectation. 10. Carlo was studying in his room. Noisy construction was going on outside. Sentence Fragments One of the key skills you will need is the ability to write complete sentences. The sentence fragment is a pitfall to avoid. Question What is a sentence fragment Answer When a group of words does not express a complete thought it is a sentence fragment. Here are some examples of them. Although they begin with a capital letter and have end punctuation they are not complete sentences. Study ways they can be made into complete sentences. NO VERB Raquel along with a friend of hers from Dallas. COMPLETE SENTENCE Raquel arrived along with a friend of hers from Dallas. PROBLEMS WITH SENTENCE STRUCTURE 155 NO VERB A small puppy running across the lawn. The word running by itself is not a verb. It needs a helping verb like is or was. See Verbals as Fragments page 161. COMPLETE SENTENCE A small puppy was running across the lawn. NO SUBJECT Took the train from Boston to New Haven. COMPLETE SENTENCE He took the train from Boston to New Haven. NO VERB NO SUBJECT From my uncle in Dallas. COMPLETE SENTENCE I got a gift from my uncle in Dallas. A common error is the use of a prepositional phrase as a complete sentence. A preposition relates the noun or pronoun following it to some other part of the sentence see Lesson 14 in Part One page 94 . A phrase is a group of connected words that does not contain a subject or a predicate. PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE Near the monitor on the desk. COMPLETE SENTENCE An owner s manual lay near the monitor on the desk. EXERCISE 7. Transform each sentence .