"Sentence Fragments" | English Grammar with Educator.com - By Educator
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| 00:0-1 | Welcome back to educator calms English grammar course . This | |
| 00:03 | lesson is on sentence fragments . Let's get started . | |
| 00:07 | All right , We're gonna begin this lesson with a | |
| 00:09 | brief overview . We're gonna talk about sentence boundaries , | |
| 00:12 | which is where fragments actually come from . We're gonna | |
| 00:15 | talk about phrases and clauses because most sentence fragments are | |
| 00:18 | actually disembodied phrases and clauses . And we're gonna talk | |
| 00:22 | about the different kinds of sentence fragments . The ones | |
| 00:25 | that are subordinate clause ones that have a missing subject | |
| 00:27 | or verb ones that have a missing subject and verb | |
| 00:30 | and fragments used for effect . There actually is a | |
| 00:33 | way to use fragments correctly . And I'll show you | |
| 00:36 | what it iss Alright , Sentence boundaries . Sentences need | |
| 00:40 | boundaries . They need punctuation and other techniques to break | |
| 00:43 | thoughts down into easily digestible chunks . Humans are easily | |
| 00:46 | distracted . We need ways to put our language is | |
| 00:48 | a little bit . So we get it when there | |
| 00:51 | are too many boundaries , sentences end up as fragments | |
| 00:54 | . We've broken them down into pieces that are too | |
| 00:56 | small . Which is where we get the word fragments | |
| 00:59 | when there aren't enough boundary sentences end up as run | |
| 01:02 | ons . Now we're gonna cover run ons in our | |
| 01:04 | next lesson , but I thought it introduced the concept | |
| 01:06 | here . Just so you know , there is the | |
| 01:08 | other end of the spectrum . All right , we're | |
| 01:12 | gonna talk about the difference between a phrase and a | |
| 01:14 | clause because they make two different kinds of fragments and | |
| 01:16 | you fix them in different ways . A phrase does | |
| 01:20 | not contain both a subject and a predicate . Now | |
| 01:23 | , you remember from our lesson on sentence structure that | |
| 01:25 | the subject is whatever is performing the action and the | |
| 01:28 | predicate is the action they're performing . A phrase is | |
| 01:31 | missing one of those , possibly even both . It | |
| 01:34 | may contain one or the other , or it may | |
| 01:36 | contain neither of them , but it never , ever | |
| 01:39 | has both . So we have things like to the | |
| 01:41 | store , which is a proposition . I'll phrase It | |
| 01:43 | has an object , but no subject , no predicate | |
| 01:45 | . We have sleeping soundly , which is participle , | |
| 01:48 | but no subject . We have once upon a time | |
| 01:51 | , once again we have an adverb in a prepositional | |
| 01:53 | phrase , but no subject , no predicate and without | |
| 01:56 | saying a word , another prepositional phrase . Now , | |
| 02:00 | a clause unlike a phrase , contains both a subject | |
| 02:04 | and a predicate in their two different kinds of clauses | |
| 02:07 | . There's an independent clause which expresses a complete thought | |
| 02:11 | and constabulary own . So in this case , I | |
| 02:14 | went to the store is an independent clause . It | |
| 02:17 | could be a sentence all by itself . It has | |
| 02:19 | a subject . I it has a predicate , went | |
| 02:23 | to the store . It works perfectly well as a | |
| 02:25 | sentence all by itself . It's independent . It doesn't | |
| 02:28 | need anything else . A dependent or subordinate clause . | |
| 02:32 | We use both names in English , unfortunately , cannot | |
| 02:35 | stand alone . It depends on another clause to do | |
| 02:38 | this . It begins with a subordinating conjunction or a | |
| 02:42 | relative prone . |
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This grammar lesson is on sentence fragments.
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