1. S ENTENCE F RAGMENTS

2. A complete sentence must have a subject and a verb and it must be able to stand alone. (Independent clause) Tom broke the vase. This is an independent clause. It can be changed to a dependent clause by adding just one word. When Tom broke the vase… Even though it still has a subject and a verb, this clause can no longer stand alone. It is now waiting for an independent clause to finish the sentence.

3. S ENTENCE F RAGMENTS An independent clause can be turned into a dependent clause by adding one of the words in the box below to the beginning of the clause. When, where, why, how, if, as, because, although, while, despite, that, who, what

4. 1 ST T YPE OF S ENTENCE F RAGMENT The first of two kinds of sentence fragments is just a dependent clause waiting for a second half that isn’t there. The bride and groom drove away in their car. As the children ran behind, shouting and laughing. A. No Change B. While the C. During which the D. The

5. 2 ND T YPE OF SENTENCE F RAGMENT You can incorporate the sentence fragment into the complete sentence coming immediately before or after the fragment through the use of different punctuation marks. Although it will always be associated with Shakespeare’s famous literary character. The castle at Elsinore was never home to Hamlet. A. No Change B. character, the C. character; the D. character. A

6. W ORK C ITED Martz, Geoff, Kim Magloire, and Theodore Silver. Cracking the ACT. 2007 ed. New York: Random House, 2007.