My favorite Mediterranean spread is hummus it is very garlicky. That's because when you try, you immediately see that you have more than one complete concept in that sentence, and you can't make the whole thing turn into one question. Make sure you try both tests with each of your problem sentences, because you may trick yourself by just putting a tag on the last part and not noticing that it doesn't work on the first. Every once in a while, you or your instructor will see a really long sentence and think it's a run-on when it isn't. A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence , usually found next to a sentence that it actually belongs in.
Some fragments are incomplete because they lack either a subject or a verb, or both.
The first kind are easier to spot than the second, which can look like complete sentences if you are reading quickly or distractedly. The second sentence is a fragment because it doesn't have a subject-verb combination. Before I graduate. Sentence fragments are like run-ons in being confusions of what makes a sentence complete or incomplete. We use sentence fragments constantly in spoken English, and they occur frequently in non-academic writing as well.