Today I reviewed something about repair sentence fragments. We named a word group which pretends to be a sentence a sentence fragment. If we want to know whether the text is a sentence fragment or a sentence, we can use the following methods.
1) If the text doesn't have a verb, it is a fragment.
2) If the text has a verb but doesn't have a subject, it is a fragment.
3) If the text has a verb and subject, and also has the word group merely a subordinate clause, it is a fragment.
4) If the text has a verb and subject, but doesn't have the the word group merely a subordinate clause, it is a sentence.
e.g.
1) Going to downtown. (a sentence fragment, does not have a subject)
2) I have a big trouble now. (a sentence)
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