The confused reader must then take a guess about how to complete the thought. To avoid sentence fragments, you first must be able to identify subjects and verbs. This who of what the sentence speaks about is called the subject. It is usually easier to find the verb, also called the action word, first. The verb is fell .
Rain is the subject.
If you can identify these types of fragments, you can eliminate them from your writing. After I researched the job market. A dependent clause, as the name suggests, depends on another statement to complete the thought. It leaves us hanging. Because it cannot stand on its own, this dependent clause is a sentence fragment .