how to tell if a sentence is a fragment
A sentence with no subject or verb is an incomplete sentence. That would be a sentence fragment. - - - - - - - - - - - - -. A complete sentence requires a subject and that subject's predicate, excluding any subject/predicate pairs that are part of a dependent clause.Sentence fragments often appear as short answers to questions, where the subject or predicate is already known. sentence is a complete thought with a noun and verb. A sentence fragment is just part of a sentence and does not make a complete thought. The above are sentences.