Introduction
Examine each group of words and say whether it is a complete sentence or not. If it is not, make whatever changes you think necessary, until you are satisfied that you have a complete sentence.
For example:
A stealthy footstep on the stairs.
→ She thought she heard a stealthy footstep on the stairs.
→ Was that a stealthy footstep on the stairs?
Note: Fragments are a common and indispensable part of everyday conversation, and are not ‘bad grammar’. However, they are discouraged in formal writing, so it is important to know the difference between a fragment and a sentence.
1. Correct.
2. As the crow flies.
3. An ugly murmur arose.
4. Surely not.
5. As far as I am concerned.
6. Which I had never seen in it before.
7. Jane Finn found.
8. Until we’ve been to the house in Soho.
9. Which was uneventful.
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