Sentences/Fragments Pop Quiz

Which of these isn't a complete sentence?

• I hope that, when I've built up my savings, I'll be able to travel to Mexico

• Did you know that, along with gorgeous architecture, it's home to the largest tamale?

• Wouldn't it be lovely to enjoy a week soaking up the culture?

• Once you know all the most difficult elements

Read each short passage that follows. Determine which part is the fragment.

• James opened the door of his cluttered refrigerator.

• Which caused a pint of blueberries to fall to the floor.

• The fruit bounced and rolled everywhere in an explosion of indigo.

Read each short passage that follows. Determine which part is the fragment

• My cat Fuzz loves to sleep in inconvenient places.

• Lately she prefers the computer table.

• Where her long hair sticks to the mouse pad, covers the keyboard, and clings to the screen of the monitor.

There is so much to understand.

• Sentence

• Fragment Sentence

Read each short passage that follows. Determine which part is the fragment.

• Maria wasn't watching her plate of barbecue very carefully.

• So Santana, the family beagle, snatched a chicken leg hanging over the edge.

• As baked beans and potato salad slid onto Maria's new sandals.

Rewrite the following fragment to make it a sentence:

By the time the concert ended.

Rewrite the following fragment to make it a sentence:

Working in Paris as a chef.

Rewrite the following fragment to make it a sentence:

Staying up past 11:00 P.M. to watch the talk shows.

Is the following a complete sentence or a sentence fragment?
The word "Mustang" may come from the Spanish word meaning "ownerless horses."

• Sentence
• Sentence Fragment

Although she drives me crazy, I am forced to tolerate her for 42 minutes per day.

• Fragment

• Complete Sentence