To express themselves in a manner acceptable at the college level, students must know edited American usage. Parenthetical notations are to sections in the Harbrace unless page numbers are indicated.
Students can check for fragments by checking for . . .
Though the person who has found the message in the bottle does not know who sent it . Another type of dependent clause that is often written as a sentence is one introduced by a relative pronoun, such as the following Which is an ordinary thing to do . By simply locating any semi-colons in the writing, a student can determine whether or not a fragment exists. By simply locating any commas in the writing, a student can determine whether or not a comma splice exists. If a sentence exists on both sides of the comma, the comma splice error exists.